Towards an O(1) VM

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2006-09-28 21:47

Linux 2.4 and 2.5 already scale fairly well towards many CPUs, large numbers of files, large numbers of network connections and several "other kinds of big." However, the VM still has a few places with poor worst case (or even average case) behavior that needs to be improved in order to make Linux work well on machines with many gigabytes of RAM.