From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 18:41:55 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mike Galbraith Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Ingo Oeser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sat, 19 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are > > trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also > > why magic numbers tend to suck in the VM.) > > Magic numbers might be sucking some performance right now ;-) ... so you replace them with some others ... ;) > Three back to back make -j 30 runs for three different kernels. > Swap cache numbers are taken immediately after last completion. The performance increase is nice, though. Do you see similar changes in different kinds of workloads ? > (yes, the last hunk looks out of place wrt my text. It also looks kind of bogus and geared completely towards this particular workload ;) regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy) -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/