Re: VM working much better in 2.4.8 than before

Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:55:12 +0200


On Monday 13 August 2001 10:41, Helge Hafting wrote:
> 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. :-)

Yes, those would be the expected effects of use-once, in fact it was
"morning after updatedb" question that got me started on it.

BTW, keep that 486, it's a great reality check!

--
Daniel
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/