Re: Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed?

From: Martin J. Bligh (Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 10:53:28 EST


> I wouldn't bother using RedHat's kernel for this at the moment,
> Andrea's tree is where the development work for this area has all
> been happening recently. He's working on integrating O(1) sched
> right now, which will get rid of the biggest issue I have with -aa
> at the moment (the issue being that I'm too idle^H^H^H^Hbusy to
> merge it ;-)).

Oh, of course, I left of the bounce buffer issue, which RedHat *have*
fixed in their tree, I believe. Not sure what the status of this work
is for -aa at the moment.

M.

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