On Wednesday 10 July 2002 22:42, Rik van Riel wrote:

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Sebastian Droege wrote:

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On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 02:31:38 -0300 (BRT)
Rik van Riel [off-list ref] wrote:

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If you have some time left this weekend and feel brave,
please test the patch which can be found at:

	http://surriel.com/patches/2.5/2.5.25-rmap-akpmtested

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after running your patch some time I have to say that the old VM
implementation and the full rmap patch (by Craig Kulesa) was better. The
system becomes very slow and has to swap in too much after some uptime
(4 hours - 2 days) and memory intensive tasks...
Maybe this happens only to me but it's fully reproducable

It's a known problem with use-once. Users of plain 2.4.18
are complaining about it, too.

Hey, thanks Rik, I know something about that :-)  And I'd be testing right
now to see if you're right, if the DAC960 driver compiled successfully.
But it doesn't, and since my test machine won't boot without it... given a
choice between diving into the driver and going back to work on directory
hashing on 2.4...

The tree that builds wins this time.

This is something to touch on after the rmap mechanism
has been merged, Linus has indicated that he wants to merge
the thing in small bits so that's what we'll be doing ;)

I bet it's something a lot dumber, like a memory leak.

-- 
Daniel
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