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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH *] rmap VM 11c
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:05:52 -0200 (BRST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0201172204080.32617-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1020117185411.4089A-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> >            http://surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.17-rmap-11c
> > and        http://linuxvm.bkbits.net/

> Rik, I tried a simple test, building a kernel in a 128M P-II-400, and
> when the load average got up to 50 or so the system became slow;-) On
> the other hand it was still usable for most normal things other then
> incoming mail which properly blocks at LA>10 or so.

Hehehe, when the load average is 50 only 2% of the CPU is available
for you. With that many gccs you're also under a memory squeeze with
128 MB of RAM, so it's no big wonder things got slow. ;)

I'm happy to hear the system was still usable, though.

> I'll be trying it on a large machine tomorrow, but it at least looks
> stable. In real life no sane person would do that, would they? Make
> with a nice -10 was essentially invisible.

Neat ...

> Maybe tomorrow the lateest -aa kernel on the same machine, with and
> without my own personal patch.

Looking forward to the results.

regards,

Rik
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-18  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-17 19:22 Rik van Riel
2002-01-17 23:59 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-01-18  0:05   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2002-01-18  0:33 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-01-18  0:56   ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-18 10:06   ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk

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