From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266085AbTLISb7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:31:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266090AbTLISb7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:31:59 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:48095 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266085AbTLISb6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:31:58 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:31:45 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Con Kolivas , Chris Vine , Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9 - poor swap performance on low end machines Message-ID: <20031209183145.GQ8039@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Con Kolivas , Chris Vine , Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Martin J. Bligh" References: <200311031148.40242.kernel@kolivas.org> <200311032113.14462.chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk> <200311041355.08731.kernel@kolivas.org> <20031208135225.GT19856@holomorphy.com> <20031208194930.GA8667@k3.hellgate.ch> <20031208204817.GA19856@holomorphy.com> <20031209002745.GB8667@k3.hellgate.ch> <20031209040501.GE19856@holomorphy.com> <20031209151103.GA4837@k3.hellgate.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031209151103.GA4837@k3.hellgate.ch> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:11:03PM +0100, Roger Luethi wrote: > I'm afraid you have a solution in search of a problem. Nobody runs a > 10x overcommit system. And if they did, they would find it doesn't work > well with 2.4, either, so no one will complain about a regression. What > does happen, though, is that people go close to the limit of what > their low-end hardware supports, which will work perfectly with 2.4 > and collapse with 2.6. No, I've got a guy in Russia complaining about 2.6 not doing well on one of his boxen. -- wli