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, 7 Sep 2001 18:25:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 18:25:04 -0400 Received: from draal.physics.wisc.edu ([128.104.137.82]:13697 "EHLO draal.physics.wisc.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 18:24:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 17:24:33 -0500 From: Bob McElrath To: Alan Cox Cc: Stephan von Krawczynski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: "Cached" grows and grows and grows... Message-ID: <20010907172433.E5598@draal.physics.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010907191349.457cad95.skraw@ithnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cYtjc4pxslFTELvY" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:15:36PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --cYtjc4pxslFTELvY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alan Cox [alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk] wrote: > > To tell you the honest truth: you are not alone in cosmos (with this pr= oblem) > > ;-) > > To give you that explicit hint for saving money: do not buy mem, it wil= l be > > eaten up by recent kernels without any performance gain or other positi= ve > > impact whatsoever.=20 >=20 > Pick up a 2.4.9-ac kernel, and you shouldnt be seeing the problem (I say > shouldnt, I'm not 100% convinced its all under control) Hmmm...that will make my kernel 2.4.10pre4aa1acX-xfs. Ack! ;) Maybe I can wait 'til 2.4.10. Then it will only be 2.4.10aa1acX-xfs. ;) Cheers, -- Bob Bob McElrath (rsmcelrath@students.wisc.edu)=20 Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics --cYtjc4pxslFTELvY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjuZSSEACgkQjwioWRGe9K0jEwCg+WTBDzyHooqXyUnbWLZIwCN2 vSwAnRjJgRXR9cDcdrlQvaO/g6rcwwkB =r2cx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cYtjc4pxslFTELvY--