Re: VM working much better in 2.4.8 than before

Helge Hafting (helgehaf@idb.hist.no)
Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:41:29 +0200


misty-@charter.net wrote:
>
> I've said it before, I'll say it again - you guys deserve a
> 'this is a great thing' report once in a while. This is such a report :)

2.4.8 is good indeed. My vmstat window tells me it ties up
about 40M less in page cache than earlier kernels, possibly an
effect of use-once. (This is a 128M desktop machine.)

updatedb run still manages to use some swap, but the machine
is no longer sluggish in the morning. :-)

Helge Hafting
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