From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <401E0177.1050007@cyberone.com.au> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 18:51:19 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: VM benchmarks References: <401D8D64.8010605@cyberone.com.au> <20040201160818.1499be18.akpm@osdl.org> <401D95C2.3080208@cyberone.com.au> <67050000.1075703499@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <67050000.1075703499@[10.10.2.4]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Martin J. Bligh wrote: >>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... >> > >Maybe you could just get gentoo to compile the whole distro ;-) > >What kind of parallelism are you putting into make? > > On the graph here: http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/vm/4/ the x axis is the -j factor, and I'm compiling a 2.4.21 source with gcc 3.3 booting with mem=64M. You can see it just starts to swap at -j6 and I'm going up to -j16 which is then fairly heavy swapping (takes >20minutes). Another thing that will need looking at is non swapping pagecache performance of course. -- 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