From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 06:49:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 06:48:57 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:18963 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 06:48:51 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Helge Hafting , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VM working much better in 2.4.8 than before Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:55:12 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] In-Reply-To: <20010811234822.A422@debian> <3B7792B9.61721B85@idb.hist.no> In-Reply-To: <3B7792B9.61721B85@idb.hist.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20010813104900Z16329-1231+665@humbolt.nl.linux.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 13 August 2001 10:41, Helge Hafting wrote: > misty-@charter.net wrote: > > > > I've said it before, I'll say it again - you guys deserve a > > 'this is a great thing' report once in a while. This is such a report :) > > 2.4.8 is good indeed. My vmstat window tells me it ties up > about 40M less in page cache than earlier kernels, possibly an > effect of use-once. (This is a 128M desktop machine.) > > updatedb run still manages to use some swap, but the machine > is no longer sluggish in the morning. :-) Yes, those would be the expected effects of use-once, in fact it was "morning after updatedb" question that got me started on it. BTW, keep that 486, it's a great reality check! -- Daniel