Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad

[Mark Hahn]

> > Any of you tried copying a 2G file in the same (ext2)
> > filesystem? It starts swapping like mad and generally behaves
> > indecently, despite the huge 1024M of RAM it has.
> 
> http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.4.0-t8p1-vmpatch2

this patch works very nicely.  it's still a little timid at 
swapping out truely idle pages, but is otherwise a major improvement.
I hope Linus takes it, since unpatched, 2.4 VM has some rough edges.

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