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Linux 2.2 and 2.4 VM Systems Compared

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hey-look-someone-did-actual-tests dept.

Derek Glidden writes "I got sick of trying to figure out from other people's reports whether or not the 2.4 kernel VM system was broken or not, so I decided to run my own tests, write them up and post them online. The short conclusion is that the 2.4 VM rocks when compared with 2.2, but there's more to it than just that."

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  1. Re:The one major difference by Shanep · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Speaking of *BSD... If Linux continues to have a development VM system in the stable kernel, causing it to lock up hard, the people who came to Linux to get away from that kind of crap in the first place, (who are now more Unix aware) might move to something truely stable like FreeBSD.

    Of course, according to Linus, there is nothing interesting in FreeBSD. ; ) Maybe he ought to steal Free's VM, or maybe Red Hat will do that for him.

    Software RAID in 2.4 is crap and now the VM... more and more I want to move completely the FreeBSD and hopefully soon get some OSX happening too.

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