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Yay! Finally!Yay! Finally!Posted Jul 22, 2010 18:47 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)Parent article: Fixing writeback from direct reclaim
I really hope that they've finally got all this ironed out.
Linux's problems with dirty memory pages have made it awful to use since forever. My old 1 GB Athlon64 laptop (now deceased) would often end up in minutes-long read/swap/flush storms when loading applications (laptop disk did not help here!). I had to use hacks to mlock X.org, critical libraries and Gnome daemons in order to maintain any kind of interactive response.
Try running Evolution and Eclipse in 1 GB RAM in 64-bit mode and using the 2.6.24 kernel if you don't believe me. :)
On that machine Windows XP64 used to run Eclipse so much nicer than 2.6.24.
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