| Subject | Re: clarification about redhat and vm | Date | Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:17:21 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> "If redhat doesn't use the -aa VM " was a short form of "if redhat > cannot see the goodness of all the bugfixing work that happened between > the 2.4.9 VM and any current branch 2.4, and so if they keep shipping > 2.4.9 VM as the best one for DBMS and critical VM apps like the SAP > benchmark".
The RH VM is totally unrelated to the crap in 2.4.9 vanilla. The SAP comment begs a question. 2.4.10 seems to have problems remembering to actually do fsync()'s. How much of your SAP benchmark is from fsync's that dont happen ? Do you get the same values with 2.4.18-aa ?
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