Re: VM working much better in 2.4.8 than before

[Helge Hafting]

[e-mail] wrote:
> 
>         I've said it before, I'll say it again - you guys deserve a
> 'this is a great thing' report once in a while. This is such a report :)

2.4.8 is good indeed.  My vmstat window tells me it ties up
about 40M less in page cache than earlier kernels, possibly an
effect of use-once.  (This is a 128M desktop machine.)

updatedb run still manages to use some swap, but the machine
is no longer sluggish in the morning. :-)

Helge Hafting