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

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 06:33:57PM +1000, john slee wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:46:36PM +0100, [e-mail] wrote:
> > In article <[e-mail]> 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)

This was actually the first priority and it's nice to hear it is
apparently been achieved successfully.

I also take the opportunity to remind everybody to keep the
00_vm-tweaks-1 from 2.4.10aa1 applied on top of 2.4.10, it seems quite
important here.

thanks,
Andrea