Re: Linux 2.1.69..

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Tue, 2 Dec 1997 19:25:13 +0000 (GMT)


On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Bill Hawes wrote:

> building higher-order pages. The fragmentation problem is IMO the most
> serious remaining mm problem in Linux.

Hmm, what about poor performance under sequential swapping? 2.0.x has two
main weak areas of performance -- NFS writing and sequential swapping. NFS
write performance has been sorted out nicely ;-)

Ingo -- did you say you have a patch to address this? Launch it my way and
I'll give it a good testing!

Cheers
Chris