From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <403B6905.2010505@movaris.com> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 07:08:53 -0800 From: Kirk True MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: LTP VM test slower under 2.6.3 than 2.4.20 References: <40363778.20900@movaris.com> <20040222231903.5f9ead5c.akpm@osdl.org> <403A2F89.4070405@movaris.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, Linux-MM@kvack.org List-ID: Hi all, I just upgraded to 2.6.3-mm2 but am still seeing a factor of two speed slowdown between 2.4.20 and 2.6.3-mm2 for both sequential and random memory accesses into 1024 MB allocated from malloc. I'm not trying to whine, I'm looking to explain this behavior and maybe be of some help somehow :) Kirk -- 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