From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dax.scot.redhat.com (sct@dax.scot.redhat.com [195.89.149.242]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA11112 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 07:07:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:05:07 GMT Message-Id: <199812041205.MAA01773@dax.scot.redhat.com> From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: SWAP: Linux far behind Solaris or I missed something (fwd) In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Rik van Riel Cc: Linux MM , Jean-Michel.Vansteene@bull.net, Stephen Tweedie List-ID: Hi, On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 13:03:35 +0100 (CET), Rik van Riel said: > Hi, > I think we really should be working on this -- anybody > got a suggestion? Depends on what the program is doing: > I've made some tests to load a computer (1GB memory). > A litle process starts eating 900 MB then slowly eats > the remainder of the memory 1MB by 1MB and does a > "data shake": 200,000 times a memcpy of 4000 bytes > randomly choosen. are these 4000 bytes chosen randomly from the 1MB currently being "eaten", or from the whole block of memory currently "eaten"? That makes a huge difference to the problem. What kernel is this, anyway? --Stephen -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org