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Re: TAKE - fix dbench on lowmem systems

To: "Amit D. Chaudhary" <amitc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TAKE - fix dbench on lowmem systems
From: Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 21:32:41 -0600
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Amit D. Chaudhary wrote:

Steve,

What is the typical memory on such a machine? Does it affect specific kernels?


Probably at least everything from 2.4.10 onwards - i.e. the new VM. I would not
attempt to backport this code blindly to earlier kernels. And as Martin said, 32M
or less was were it was being seen.


Steve


p.s. there is a second fix to the fix which followed shortly after the original.





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