Re: Linux hostile to poverty

Samuli Kaski (samkaski@cs.helsinki.fi)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 18:54:27 +0300 (EEST)


On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Benjamin Redelings I wrote:

..

> And I just heard that this whole fragmentation problem is the result of
> having a dcache, which is why 2.1 NEEDS to worry about fragmentation but
> 2.0 didn't. But I don't really know what I'm talking about, just overhear

Uhumm and I thought the exact opposite was true. At least I originally
moved away from 2.0.32 because the box became absolutely unusable after
5 or so days. I have been running 2.1.[96-105] for upto 30 days and I
don't see any problems. (sound works, X doesn't get jerky and so on)

As I see it the 2.1 fragmentation issues have seen the daylight in the
past 2 months or so, can't say exactly when.

--
Samuli Kaski, samkaski@cs.helsinki.fi
Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.

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