Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Just let me add my observation. The VM behaviour of 2.4.5 (started with
> > some 2.4.4-ac kernel) is definitely less than an improvement for *my*
>
> 2.4.5 and 2.4.4-ac are unrelated VM setups. 2.4.5-ac is probably much better
> for a lot of loads as it has the 2.4.5 general behaviour but gets the aging
> a lot more sane
OK. Maybe my wording was implying a nonexisting relation. In any case,
the behaviour I described started with some of the later (-ac12)
versions of 2.4.4-ac and continues with 2.4.5-ac.
On a side question: does Linux support swap-files in addition to
sawp-partitions? Even if that has a performance penalty, when the system
is swapping performance is dead anyway.
Martin
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