Re: pre5 VM feedback..

2001-01-18 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On 15 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >$!@#@! pre6 is already out :) > > Yes, and for heavens sake don't use it, because the reiserfs merge got > some dirty inode logic wrong. pre7 fixes just that one line and should

Re: pre5 VM feedback..

2001-01-18 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > The swapin readahead code tries to allocate (1 << page_cluster) pages at > each swapin. > > This means there's a big chance of having (1 << page_cluster) > "self-swap-out"'s at each swapin if we're under low memory. > > Nasty. Actually its even

Re: pre5 VM feedback..

2001-01-15 Thread Aaron Sethman
On 15 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Now, I'm not saying your filesystem is toast. I'm just saying that if > you booted up in pre6, I'd suggest a quick reboot into a better kernel > might be a good idea (be a jock, and do a sync and just push the reset > button to force a proper fsck when it c

Re: pre5 VM feedback..

2001-01-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Linus Torvalds wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >$!@#@! pre6 is already out :) > >> Yes, and for heavens sake don't use it, [...] > >Too late... First and foremost, a co

Re: pre5 VM feedback..

2001-01-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >$!@#@! pre6 is already out :) > Yes, and for heavens sake don't use it, [...] Too late... First and foremost, a correction: The VM data I posted was for pre1, not pre5. Here is the VM data fro

Re: pre5 VM feedback..

2001-01-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >$!@#@! pre6 is already out :) Yes, and for heavens sake don't use it, because the reiserfs merge got some dirty inode logic wrong. pre7 fixes just that one line and should be ok again. >Anyway, this may be a totally subject

pre5 VM feedback..

2001-01-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
$!@#@! pre6 is already out :) Anyway, this may be a totally subjective (and incorrect) perception, but it seems to me like the recent 2.4.x-test kernels and thereafter start swapping things out really quickly. Case in point: "diff -urN linux.vanilla linux" command swaps out Konqueror and Netsca