From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA02493 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 23:42:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3DABB8EF.5E00AF4E@digeo.com> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 23:42:55 -0700 From: Andrew Morton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 2.5.42-mm2 on small systems References: <20021013160451.GA25494@hswn.dk> <20021013223332.GA870@hswn.dk> <3DA9FA51.2E4129E8@digeo.com> <200210140825.29533.tomlins@cam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ed Tomlinson Cc: Bill Davidsen , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > ... > > with 2.5.42-mm2 it does not finish. The machine is sort of usable while its runing > and control C has no problem ending the program. I waited 11 hours for the spawnload > test to complete - it was looking very good before this.... > > Memory size 61 MB > Starting 1 CPU run with 61 MB RAM, minimum 5 data points at 20 sec intervals > > . . . . . . . . > _____________ delay ms. ____________ > Test low high median average S.D. ratio > noload 2262.747 2269.895 2264.050 2264.796 0.002 1.000 > smallwrite 3797.901 12132.336 3875.934 5364.276 2.815 2.369 > largewrite 3857.445 35682.893 3875.064 8405.061 10.531 3.711 > cpuload 5385.148 7589.479 5514.157 5771.985 0.729 2.549 > > The box was not limited by IO (no swapping nor was there much bi/bo in > vmstat). About 25% User and 75% system in cpu though. hm. Works for me. The default setting are waaay too boring, so I used ./resp -m2 -M5 -w5 Test low high median average median avg noload 143.168 149.676 143.258 145.602 1.000 1.000 smallwrite 144.319 4350.325 269.161 1428.881 1.879 9.814 largewrite 230.759 1129.816 492.421 539.192 3.437 3.703 cpuload 142.833 207.206 143.374 159.036 1.001 1.092 spawnload 143.066 313.944 143.240 177.391 1.000 1.218 8ctx-mem 159.396 5823.791 810.837 2020.066 5.660 13.874 2ctx-mem 757.203 8192.148 1294.120 2538.975 9.033 17.438 Could be a scheduler thing? Maybe a bug in the test? -- 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/