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Subject: Re: 2.4: mylex and > 2GB RAM
From: Per Buer <perbu@linpro.no>
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Marcelo,

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 11:31, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> You may want to give 2.4.23 a try. 
> 
> The VM has been changed to balance the memory in a "saner" way wrt 
> highmem. 

All I can say is that it is somewhat better - but far from good. When
writing intensively prosesses more or less lock up when we run out of
Lowmem. 

2.4.23 seems to recover from this state faster then 2.4.22 - but I cant
really quantify this in any way.

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