Re: Linux memory handling improvement - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: Linux memory handling improvement
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Msg-id 1063631532.4478.2.camel@tokyo
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In response to Linux memory handling improvement  ("Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: Linux memory handling improvement  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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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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