RE: should I trust 'free' or 'top'?

Buddy Lumpkin (blumpkin@attbi.com)
Fri, 1 Feb 2002 23:18:30 -0800


>The only kernels you are likely to see that not happen on are

>- The 2.4.9 kernel with Rik's patches that Linus didnt take
(Red Hat 2.4.9-*)
>- 2.4.17/18pre with the rmap11/rmap12 patches
>- 2.4.17/18pre with the -aa patched VM
(which I believe is also in the SuSE kernel packages)
>- 2.2

>The base VM in Linus tree has been broken since before 2.4.0 and while
>somewhat better is still that - broken. The major vendors don't ship it for
>a reason.

Why is this?

Is linus working toward what he believes will be a better impementation? Is
he just being stubborn?
I guess I just can't imagine any reason why he would want
large enterprise applications running poorly when there are obvious fixes.

Believe it or not, im not trying to start a flame war, just trying to
understand the logic.

--Buddy

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