Re: linux-2.6.5-mjb1 Comment.

From: Martin J. Bligh
Date: Wed Apr 14 2004 - 18:51:26 EST


> Test 2.6.5-mjb2 for more than 2 days only, system is pretty stable (the same as
> almost all other 2.6.x with my box). The significant performance improved
> compared to 2.6.5-aa5, 2.6.5 and all others 2.6.x for with a low end box line mine
> (660 Mhx Celeron 256 Mb RAM) make me write this comment. :-) Wish that some
> improvement could make way to the mainline kernel.

Good ;-) We're working on getting it integrated back in ... just a couple of
outstanding corner cases need killing first.

> The memory management is nearly perfect. Before I tried one ck kernel use auto
> regulation swap and it was still much worse than this one as I noticed the value
> in swappiness also changes by the time.

Con's changes are in there, but they were updated once or twice, and there
are bug fixes too. I still think it's the Right Thing to Do (tm).

M.

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