From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:08:18 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: VM benchmarks Message-Id: <20040201160818.1499be18.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <401D8D64.8010605@cyberone.com.au> References: <401D8D64.8010605@cyberone.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Nick Piggin wrote: > > After playing with the active / inactive list balancing a bit, > I found I can very consistently take 2-3 seconds off a non > swapping kbuild, and the light swapping case is closer to 2.4. > Heavy swapping case is better again. Lost a bit in the middle > though. > > http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/vm/4/ > > At the end of this I might come up with something that is very > suited to kbuild and no good at anything else. Do you have any > other ideas of what I should test? > The thing people most seem to complain about is big compilations. Things like a bitkeeper consistency check while dinking with the X UI have also been noted, but that's a bit hard to quantify. Maybe ask Roger to try his efax workload? -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org