Re: Does linux-2.2.15 have a serious disk problem? (was Re: End of first test cycle, new packages installed)
Mike Bilow <mikebw@colossus.bilow.com> wrote:
>On 2000-05-25 at 09:34 +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
>> Thus spake Colin Watson (cjw44@flatline.org.uk):
>> > The later 2.3.99-pre* kernels have serious virtual memory management
>> > problems on many machines; the visible effect is kswapd hogging massive
>> > amounts of CPU time on even reasonable levels of I/O. I found them
>> > unusable for any length of time on my machine. Looks like it should be
>> > fixed soon, though ...
>> >
>> > I've heard some rumours that 2.2.15 *may* have similar problems, but I
>> > can't offer much more than innuendo. I think we'd need more than rumour
>> > to roll it back out of the test cycle.
>>
>> IIRC, this is indeed the case. It seems, however, that not everyone
>> running those kernels is affected (depending on hardware and/or software
>> configuration pesumably).
>> See http://kt.linuxcare.com/kernel-traffic/latest.epl#5 for more info.
>
>I would not get too worried about this. Anyone running around with a
>gigabyte or more of RAM can probably be expected to know how to do a
>custom kernel build.
Hmm, for me it's at 192Mb. Since PCs are now being sold with more memory
than this out of the box, I don't think it's purely a high-end problem.
>If Linus comes out with a 2.2.16 before Potato is released, then maybe
>it should be considered for inclusion, but at this point I would rather
>have a few disk performance problems on unusual hardware than the known
>security holes in 2.2.14.
Point taken, though.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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