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    SubjectRe: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

    Kevin Buhr writes:
    > If I recall correctly, RedHat's 2.96 was a modified development
    > snapshot of GCC 3.0, not an official GCC release. If this is just a
    > quirk in 2.96 that can be fixed before the official release of 3.0 by
    > a trivial patch to libiberty, maybe your original hunch was right and
    > the kernel should be left as-is.

    It is the garbage collector scheme used for memory allocation in gcc
    >=2.96 that triggers the bad cases seen by Serge.

    Later,
    David S. Miller
    davem@redhat.com
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