From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Kirk True <ktrue@movaris.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, Linux-MM@kvack.org
Subject: Re: LTP VM test slower under 2.6.3 than 2.4.20
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:42:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040223114233.6ed4eded.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <403A2F89.4070405@movaris.com>
Kirk True <ktrue@movaris.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> > I'd be wondering if your disk system is correctly running in DMA mode.
>
> Apparently support for my hardware isn't magically preset in 2.6.3 as it
> was somehow in 2.4. After including it in the kernel the values returned
> by hdparm -Tt /dev/hda/ were sped up by a factor of 10! Thanks!
>
> But...
>
> > On my 256MB test box, mem01 takes 31 seconds under 2.4.25, 25 seconds
> > under 2.6.3-mm3.
>
> ...I'm still seeing a factor of two speed slowdown between 2.4.20 and
> 2.6.3. Would it help to do a vmstat log/graph for the new results?
>
Try 2.6.3-mm3. It's tons better at this.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-23 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-20 16:36 Kirk True
2004-02-20 16:39 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-20 18:57 ` Kirk True
2004-02-20 19:03 ` Kirk True
[not found] ` <40363DEE.9040608@movaris.com>
[not found] ` <5760000.1077296989@[10.10.2.4]>
2004-02-22 15:32 ` Kirk True
2004-02-20 22:45 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-21 2:50 ` Kirk True
2004-02-21 2:50 ` Kirk True
2004-02-21 15:39 ` Kirk True
2004-02-23 7:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 16:51 ` Kirk True
2004-02-23 19:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-02-24 15:08 ` Kirk True
2004-02-24 23:38 ` Andrew Morton
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