From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ttb by platypus.tentacle.dhs.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13XXRq-0008GN-00 for ; Fri, 08 Sep 2000 19:20:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 19:20:42 -0400 From: deprogrammer Subject: test8-vmpatch performs great here! Message-ID: <20000908192042.A31685@tentacle.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: After reading ben's email I dicided to run his same test on my box running test8 + vmpatch3 some specs: K7 - 600, 128MB ram. environment: X 4.0.1 and netscape 4.75 were running. I ran 2 tests: 1) tar zxvf linux-2.4.0-test6.tar.gz 2) tar xvf linux-2.4.0-test6.tar free_before: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 127176 62960 64216 0 2164 25500 -/+ buffers/cache: 35296 91880 Swap: 128516 0 128516 free_after_tgz: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 127176 124892 2284 0 6612 80592 -/+ buffers/cache: 37688 89488 Swap: 128516 0 128516 free_after_tar: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 127176 124952 2224 0 2848 85336 -/+ buffers/cache: 36768 90408 Swap: 128516 0 128516 The box remained somewhat interactive, but a few times during the tar zxvf the box would stop responding for a few seconds during which there would be alot of disk activity, same for the tar xvf. john -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/