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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 10:08:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage"
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To: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Ben LaHaise wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > Try pre4.
>
> It's similarly awful (what did you expect -- there are no meaningful
> changes between the two!).

The buffer.c changes could easily cause pre5 to be more aggressive in
pushing larger dirty blocks out..

Some people report _much_ better interactive behaviour with pre4.

So it obviously depends on load.

		Linus

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