From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <401D95C2.3080208@cyberone.com.au> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:11:46 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: VM benchmarks References: <401D8D64.8010605@cyberone.com.au> <20040201160818.1499be18.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040201160818.1499be18.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Andrew Morton wrote: >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? > > > efax is a compilation as well. I would be up for trying it, but it needs quite a lot of GUI dev libraries installed to compile it. I'll get onto it sometime I suppose, but for now I'll try to leave my test box unchanged. Unfortunately starting mozilla / kde / openoffice is another one people complain about but harder to 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/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org