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To: Luigi Genoni <kernel@Expansa.sns.it>
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Subject: Re: Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage
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Luigi Genoni writes:
 > with 2.4.5 i had similar problems with 4 GB RAM on a 4-processor
 > sparc64.
 > 2.4.6 solved my problems.

It is different issue, most of slowdowns people are seeing are
due to highmem.  Sparc64 does not have highmem.

Later,
David S. Miller
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