Re: 2.4.8preX VM problems

From: Andrew Tridgell (tridge@valinux.com)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 00:43:26 EST


Marcelo wrote:
> Could you please apply
> http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~marcelo/patches/v2.4/2.4.7pre9/zoned.patch
> on top of 2.4.7 and try to reproduce the problem ?

yep, that's the culprit. Running an original 2.4.7 with the zoned
patch applied showed the same slowdowns as 2.4.8preX. Looks like the
zoned patch has a problem when the buffer cache grows beyond 800M.

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