Re: New buffer/cache small report and questions

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
22 Jun 1999 15:58:32 GMT


In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906221534360.2433-100000@star.atlas-iap.es>,
Ricardo Galli Granada <gallir@atlas-iap.es> wrote:
>
>My question is, are the changes going to be back ported to 2.2.x?

Not a chance in hell.

But I hope that we can make 2.4.x much faster than we did 2.2.x, ie on
the "late fall" timeframe rather than "two years from now".

>My second question is, can a 4096 bytes block size improve results even
>more?

Yes. And we'll continue to work on making the tuning and stability
better: right now 2.3.7 is certainly known to have some problems.

Linus

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