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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>
Cc: Neil Conway <nconway.list@ukaea.org.uk>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM improvements for 2.1.131
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 18:01:31 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199812071801.SAA06360@dax.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981207140223.23360K-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home>

Hi,

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 14:04:04 +0100 (CET), Rik van Riel
<H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> said:

> what we really need is somebody to try it out on 4M and
> 8M machines...

Been doing that.  2.1.130 is the fastest kernel ever in 8MB (using
defrag builds over NFS as a benchmark): 25% faster that 2.0.36.  2.1.131
is consistently about 10% slower at the same job than 130 (but still
faster than 2.0 ever was).

--Stephen
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  reply	other threads:[~1998-12-07 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-12-06  0:34 Rik van Riel
1998-12-06  2:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-12-06  1:59   ` Rik van Riel
1998-12-07 17:08   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-12-07 10:47 ` Neil Conway
1998-12-07 13:04   ` Rik van Riel
1998-12-07 18:01     ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
1998-12-07 22:04       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-12-07 22:51         ` Rik van Riel
1998-12-09 17:43         ` Andrea Arcangeli
1998-12-09 21:05           ` Rik van Riel
1998-12-09 23:15             ` Andrea Arcangeli
1998-12-10  1:10               ` Rik van Riel
1998-12-10 13:52               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-12-10 13:50           ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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