Re: Linux 2.1.69..

[Bill Hawes]

Chris Evans 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!

Getting better swapping performance would be good, but in my statement
of a "serious problem" I was factoring in the system lockups that occur
for some people because of fragmentation.

Faster is always nice, but a locked up system is the slowest of all.

Regards,
Bill