Re: 2.4 Success story

From: Jeffrey Ingber (jhingber@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 17:23:49 EST


I agree. This is a fantastic kernel - so good infact, it'll probably be
awhile before I try out a new one unless some other issue(s) comes up.
I had a nagging problem with XF864 dying with Sig'11 on SMP and this has
completely cleared it up.

There's probably several issues with this kernel, but as the saying goes
'It works for me.'. Excellent work.

Jeffrey H. Ingber (jhingber _at_ ix.netcom.com)

On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 15:33, José Luis Domingo López wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 September 2001, at 12:20:03 -0700,
> Colonel wrote:
>
> > A brief note of _thanks_ to all that create the linux kernel.
> > [...]
> > This particular gem of a kernel is:
> >
> > 2.4.9-ac10 #1 SMP Tue Sep 11 21:47:15 PDT 2001 i686
> >
> >From my particular experience with a couple of very low-end computers
> moderately loaded (mainly used as workstations) I can say that in _my_ own
> setup and hardware, memory management in 2.4.9-ac10 feels much better than
> 2.4.9's. In 2.4.9-ac10 I've been using:
> echo "1" > /proc/sys/vm/page_aging_tactic
>
> and the result is a much better behavior of the system. Now, with the same
> applications loaded, daily cron doesn't force all of my appliactions into
> swap (something 2.4.9 did). Now swap usage is much lower, the system seems
> to have a faster response to user interaction than before and "swapoff" is
> _much_ (maybe x10) faster than in 2.4.9.
>
> It seems that we are getting closer to a production-quality kernel :)
>
> --
> José Luis Domingo López
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