Re: Linux memory handling improvement

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Linux memory handling improvement
Date: 2003-09-15 13:12:12
Message-ID: 1063631532.4478.2.camel@tokyo
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On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 07:32, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> This will probably take a while to make its way into vendor kernels, and
> even then we'll need to keep the warnings in the docs for people running
> older kernels. I am not sure at this stage what its status is for the 2.6
> kernel series.

The 2.6 kernel series uses a VM written by someone else (Rik van Riel),
so I don't think that 2.4 VM improvements are relevant to it. But it's
definitely a good thing that the -AA VM improvements are finally being
merged into the mainline 2.4 kernel.

-Neil

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