Re: Strange behaviour of swap under 2.4.5-ac15

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:43:14AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> > either apply this patch to 2.4.5ac15:
> > 
> > 	ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.5aa3/00_fix-unusable-vm-on-alpha-1
> 
> That one has already been fixed in -pre3 and I think also

wrong, I merged it with Linus in pre2 not pre3.

> in -ac14+ kernels (haven't verified the -ac kernels, though).

wrong -ac15 is still missing it.

> which is now a lot closer to being balanced. It's not a bug,

wrong, that was a core showstopper bug and it renders any machine with a
zone empty unusable. (it has nothing to do with beauty or stats)

Andrea