Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16

From: Doug Ledford (dledford@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Nov 26 2001 - 22:56:43 EST


Sean Elble wrote:

>>I tried switching to Redhat's 2.4.9-13 kernel and it acts Alot better.
>>Not only does 2.4.9-13 not get the 30 second delay, but it also seems to
>>take advantage of caching. 2.4.16 takes the same moment of time each
>>time, even tho it should have cached it all into memory the first time.
>>
>
> Unless Red Hat has specifically added Andrea's new VM code to the 2.4.9
> kernel, then that kernel is still using the old VM.

Not exactly. That kernel is -ac based (plus lots of other patches, some
of them VM tweaks) and is a Van Riel VM.

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