From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed References: From: Christoph Rohland Date: 11 May 2000 13:12:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 10 May 2000 17:16:05 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "James H. Cloos Jr." , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: Linus Torvalds writes: > Ok, there's a pre7-9 out there, and the biggest change versus pre7-8 is [...] > Just the dirty buffer handling made quite an enormous difference, so > please do test this if you hated earlier pre7 kernels. # vmstat 5 9 3 0 0 921884 1796 12776 0 0 0 0 108 77813 2 90 8 11 1 1 12044 523248 1080 25232 0 2494 0 624 327 16323 1 97 3 13 0 1 16468 728120 720 29000 0 3818 0 955 364 17820 3 97 0 11 1 1 336 237340 720 13040 0 1114 0 278 200 10402 1 99 0 10 2 1 476 41628 720 13184 0 4066 0 1017 401 5792 1 99 0 VM: killing process ipctst VM: killing process ipctst VM: killing process ipctst 4 5 1 31872 2500 96 25592 22 13447 6 3362 983 10863 0 82 1 5 4 1 58708 675260 280 19024 0 5388 12 1355 2231 1558 0 77 23 0 0 0 58708 675260 280 19024 0 0 0 0 112 4 0 0 100 I still hate it ;-) Greetings Christoph -- 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/