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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again
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> > > 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 ;-)
>
> Cripes no.  It's pretty experimental.  Andrea spotted a bug, too.  Fixed
> version is below.

Any more plans?
The patch has been working great for some time now, and I'd really like to see 
this in the official tree. Also - I guess this patch will eliminate any 
caching whatsoever, and therefore not really a good thing for file or web 
servers?

roy

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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester

Computers are like air conditioners.
They stop working when you open Windows.