Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

[Mike Galbraith]

On Mon, 28 May 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 28 May 2001, Leeuw van der, Tim wrote:
> >
> > > The VM in 2.4.5 might be largely 'fixed' and I know that the VM changes in
> > > -ac were considered to be but still broken, however for me they worked
> > > better than what is in 2.4.5.
> >
> > The VM changes in 2.4.5 fixed a very serious performance problem.  IMHO,
> > 2.4.5 is a step in the right direction.  (and I hope more steps are in
> > the offing;)
>
> It did not fixed any interactivity problem.

Yes, I know.  I mentioned that interactivity went south here back
when we stopped waiting.  The performance problem I was refering to
was the cache collapsing as soon as you hit a load spike.  You and
Rik killed that longstanding problem.

	-Mike