> There are a few pending projects I've heard about that I'd like to see
> included if at all possible. I'm not sure of the current status, but
> perhaps the authors can offer a timetable.
>
> Not in any particular order, they are:
> (1) Mark Hemment is doing some work on reducing memory fragmentation by
> building higher-order pages. The fragmentation problem is IMO the most
> serious remaining mm problem in Linux.
Aha! Any ideas where I can grab a copy of this from please? Is this the
page colouring stuff that was going to go into the CVS tree?
FWIW, my machine locked up on a vanilla 2.1.69 yesterday (32M RAM, running
X, netscape, couple of xterms) ... memory related it seems as it would
accept ping packets no larger than 800 bytes but it seemed unsociable in
every other respect. Nothing interesting in the log files, not even a
fork-out-of-memory.
Thank you,
--Craig