Re: Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 17:28:48 -0300 (BRST)


On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>
> > I'm about the zillionth person to complain about this problem on
> > this list. It is completely unacceptable to say that I can't
> > use the memory on my machines because the kernel is too hungry
> > for cache.
>
> Fully agreed. The problem is that getting a solution which
> works in a multizoned VM isn't all that easy, otherwise we
> would have fixed it ages ago ...

Well, actually there are a few known solutions to this
problem, but they are not really an option for the 2.4
series since they require large code changes...

Rik

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