Re: 2.4.10aa1 (00_vm-tweaks-1)

john slee (indigoid@higherplane.net)
Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:33:57 +1000

On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:46:36PM +0100, arjan@fenrus.demon.nl wrote:
> In article <E15lH4e-0000VP-00@the-village.bc.nu> you wrote:
> >> If you took my patch for it, PLEASE don't send it for inclusion; it's an
> >> evil hack and no longer needed when Intel fixes the bug in their 440GX bios.
>
> > "when" is not a word I find useful about most bios bugs. Try "if" or
> > "less likely that being hit on the head by an asteroid"
>
> This case is different. Intel promised the update "soon". For them it's

oh, they _promised_! great!

on another note...

2.4.10 is great incidentally, noticeably improved performance for
a somewhat large postgresql db on raid0 (35GB, ~100 million rows)

if anyone's interested i'll post numbers vs. 2.4.9 as i do more testing.

/me bearhug andrea

j.

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