From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 08:31:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 08:31:31 -0500 Received: from tomts5.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.25]:21647 "EHLO tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 08:31:20 -0500 From: Ed Tomlinson Organization: me To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [lkml]Re: VM problems still in 2.2.18 Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 08:00:44 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00121508004400.16895@oscar> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > slrnpull --expire on a news-spool of about 600 Mb in 200,000 files gave > > a lot of 'trying_to_free..' errors. > > > > 2.2.18 + VM-global, booted with mem=32M: > > > > slrnpull --expire on the same spool worked fine. > > I think Andrea just earned his official God status ;) I have been using the aa series kernels through out the 18pre series (with reiserfs). They have worked very well. Suggest you and Andrea talk and figure out what else from this series can be put into 19pre. Believe the major changes left in the aa series are bigmem and lvm. I would love to see lvm officially in 2.2... Luck, Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/