Re: vm-33, strongly recommended [Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable]

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 19:07:50 EST

Andrea Arcangeli writes:
> I recommend everybody to never use a 2.4 kernel without first applying
> this vm patch:
[...]

The way you write this makes it sound that the unpatched kernel is
very dangerous. Is this actually true? Or do you really just mean "the
patched kernel has better handling under extreme loads"?

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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