From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264583AbUBEJze (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 04:55:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264586AbUBEJze (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 04:55:34 -0500 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:28909 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264583AbUBEJzd (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 04:55:33 -0500 From: Nikita Danilov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16418.4883.428169.211475@laputa.namesys.com> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:55:31 +0300 To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.6.2-mm1 aka "Geriatric Wombat" In-Reply-To: <20040205014405.5a2cf529.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20040205014405.5a2cf529.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta16) "celeriac" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton writes: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2/2.6.2-mm1/ > > > - Merged some page reclaim fixes from Nick and Nikita. These yield some > performance improvements in low memory and heavy paging situations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) [jargon]: WOMBAT /wom'bat/ adj. [acronym: Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] Applied to problems which are both profoundly {uninteresting} in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A reference to the "VM replacement research was finished in 60s", I presume. > > - Various random fixes. Nikita.