Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Dec 2003 14:36:36 +0100 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.23 includes Andrea's VM? |
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On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:37:19 +0100 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:51:36AM -0500, Ian Soboroff wrote: > > > > I have a machine with 12GB of RAM, and I've been running a 2.4.22-era > > kernel with Andrea's patches on it, otherwise it dies from lack of > > lowmem. > > > > The latest -aa patch is for 2.4.23-pre6, but I see in the 2.4.23 > > Changelog that at least some bits of Andrea's VM were merged. Should > > I be able to run a vanilla 2.4.23 on this box? > > It's probably going to work an order of magnitude better thanks > especially to the lower_zone_reserve algorithm. > > However I'd still recommend to use my tree, the last two critical bits > you need from my tree are inode-highmem and related_bhs. Those two are > still missing, and you probably need them with 12G. > > I'm going to release a 2.4.23aa1 btw, that will be the last 2.4-aa.
Let us try these please and have them (at last) included in mainline. Thanks for your continous work.
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