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Re: netlink drops messages.

To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: netlink drops messages.
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:28:07 +0100
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>, "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" <blah@xxxxxxxxx>, jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>, Werner Almesberger <Werner.Almesberger@xxxxxxx>, "James R. Leu" <jleu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20010121101530.B19680@xxxxxxxxxxx>; from gleb@xxxxxxxxxxx on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 09:18:25AM +0100
References: <20010118152452.A5289@xxxxxxxxxx> <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010118163315.32221C-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20010119001453.A11693@xxxxxxxxxx> <20010121101530.B19680@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 09:18:25AM +0100, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> Why we need swaping in the kernel? Has there been any real world problem 
> shown that cannot be solved by adding few more MB of memory into the box?
> :)

Times have changed. 

These days Linux uses without much consideration several MB of your main memory
for hash tables because it's easier to enlarge them than to tune the 
functions. 



-Andi

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