From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from Cantor.suse.de (Cantor.suse.de [194.112.123.193]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA24823 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:36:22 -0500 Message-ID: <19981119223434.00625@boole.suse.de> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:34:34 +0100 From: "Dr. Werner Fink" Subject: Re: Linux-2.1.129.. References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Linus Torvalds on Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 12:33:19AM -0800 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Cc: linux-mm List-ID: > > Have fun with it, and tell me if it breaks. But it won't. I'm finally > getting the old "greased weasel" feeling back. In short, this is the much > awaited perfect and bug-free release, and the only reason I don't call it > 2.2 is that I'm chicken. > > Kvaa, kvaa, > Linus Yes on a 512MB system it's a great win ... on a 64 system I see something like a ``swapping weasel'' under high load. It seems that page ageing or something *similar* would be nice for a factor 512/64 >= 2 ... under high load and not enough memory it's maybe better if we could get the processes in turn into work instead of useless swapping (this was a side effect of page ageing due to the implicit slow down). Werner -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org