[HACKERS] Linux memory handling improvement

2003-09-15 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Heads up: it appears that the Linux stable kernel series is about to get a sane VM system from Andrea Arcangeli, which has proper page accounting and does not have an Out Of Memory killer at all. This will probably take a while to make its way into vendor kernels, and even then we'll need to

Re: [HACKERS] Linux memory handling improvement

2003-09-15 Thread Neil Conway
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

Re: [HACKERS] Linux memory handling improvement

2003-09-15 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Neil Conway wrote: 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