Re: 2.4.5 VM

[Christopher Zimmerman]

Christopher Zimmerman wrote:

> "Trever L. Adams" wrote:
>
> > In my opinion 2.4.x is NOT ready for primetime.  The VM has been getting
> > worse since 2.4.0, I believe.  Definitely since and including 2.4.3.  I
> > cannot even edit a few images in gimp where the entire working set used
> > to fit entirely in memory.  The system now locks in some loop (SAK still
> > works).
> >
> > FILE CACHING IS BROKEN.  I don't care who says what, by the time swap is
> > half filled, it is time to start throwing away simple caches.  Not wait
> > until there is no more memory free and then lock in an infinite loop.
> >
> > My system has 128 Meg of Swap and RAM.
> >
> > Trever Adams
> >
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> I've found that with the latest kernel release (2.4.5) VM performance has
> been greatly improved.  kswapd and bdflush no longer use 200% of my cpu
> cycles when simply doing a dd bs=1024 count=8388608 if=/dev/zero
> of=test.file.  All of my test systems remain responsive with about 180% cpu
> available.  These systems are running software RAID and 3ware IDE raid with
> 2GB of memory and 4GB swap.  Have you tried 2.4.5?
>
> -zim
>
> Christopher Zimmerman
> AltaVista Company
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