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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 07:35:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1572079531.1022225730@[10.10.2.3]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205241004.g4OA4Ul28364@mail.pronto.tv>

>> Sounds like exactly the same problem we were having. There are two
>> approaches to solving this - Andrea has a patch that tries to free them
>> under memory pressure, akpm has a patch that hacks them down as soon
>> as you've fininshed with them (posted to lse-tech mailing list). Both
>> approaches seemed to work for me, but the performance of the fixes still
>> has to be established.
> 
> Where can I find the akpm patch?

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lse-tech&m=102083525007877&w=2

> Any plans to merge this into the main kernel, giving a choice 
> (in config or /proc) to enable this?

I don't think Andrew is ready to submit this yet ... before anything
gets merged back, it'd be very worthwhile testing the relative
performance of both solutions ... the more testers we have the
better ;-)

Thanks,

M.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-24 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-23 13:11 [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-05-23 14:54 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-23 16:29   ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-05-23 16:46     ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-24 10:04       ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-05-24 14:35         ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-05-24 19:32           ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-30 10:29             ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-05-30 19:28               ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-31 16:56                 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-05-31 18:19                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-06-18 11:26             ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-06-18 19:42               ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-19 11:26                 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-07-10  7:50             ` [2.4 BUFFERING BUG] (was [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again) Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-07-10  8:05               ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-10  8:14                 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-08-28  9:28             ` [BUG+FIX] 2.4 buggercache sucks Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-08-28 15:30               ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-29  8:00                 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-08-29 13:42                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-30  9:21                     ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-08-30 17:19                       ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-30 18:49                         ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-24 15:11     ` [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again Alan Cox
2002-05-24 15:53       ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-24 16:14         ` Alan Cox
2002-05-24 16:31           ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-24 17:30             ` Austin Gonyou
2002-05-24 17:43               ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-24 18:03                 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-05-24 18:10                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-24 18:29                     ` 2.4 Kernel Perf discussion [Was Re: [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again] Austin Gonyou
2002-05-24 19:01                       ` Stephen Frost
2002-05-27  9:24               ` [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again Marco Colombo
2002-05-27 22:24                 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-05-27 23:08                   ` Austin Gonyou
2002-05-27 11:12       ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-05-27 14:31         ` Alan Cox
2002-05-27 13:43           ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-05-23 16:03 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2002-05-23 16:33   ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-05-23 22:50     ` Luigi Genoni
2002-05-24 11:53       ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-05-23 18:12 ` jlnance
2002-05-24 10:36   ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-05-31 21:21     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-06-01 12:36       ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk

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