>What 2.1.110-3 does is to much more aggressively throw out dentries (and
>thus inodes) under low-memory circumstances. It may be _too_ aggressive
>right now, but if so that just gives a good mid point to strive for.
It' s not too aggressive. 2.1.110 _seems_ the fastest kernel on my 32Mbyte
machine (I was reading linux-kernel with a diff -urN running on the kernel
and a dpkg -i xbase without major stalls jumping from messages). I have
not numbers though...
I was running with the default freepage settings.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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