From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:05:52 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH *] rmap VM 11c 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: Bill Davidsen Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS" -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/