On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:54:04PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > BTW since we are just bashing VMs: I always hear that 2.2 is so much
> > better: The first 2.2 kernel which could really survive this test was
> > 2.2.19!
>
> That I can believe. With the exception of the dcache balancing problem the
> 2.2.19/20 VM basically eliminated all 2.2 bug reports on VM behaviour.
can you reproduce the dcache problem with this patch applied?
The grow of the dcache in 2.2 is bound to the grow of the icache which
is not dynamic in 2.2. (modulo hardlinks but I don't think the guy was
using hardlinks)
Andrea
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