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

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 22 May 2002 15:52:20 +0100 (BST)


> 2.4.19-pre kernel. Otherwise, the Red Hat patched kernel (which I
> believe still doesn't use Andrea's VM at all) ought to work well, with
> all their spiffy regression testing etc....

The Red Hat 7.3 kernel uses Rik van Riel's rmap and Andre Hedricks IDE
updates. It did indeed pass our stress testing and seems to perform very
well under memory contention and high shared page counts - the classic
desktop/developer set up.

Alan

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