Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Jul 1997 21:21:25 -0600 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: Perfect buffer/swapping in pre-patch-2.0.31-2 + a few changes |
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On Jul 10, Dr. Werner Fink wrote > > Hi, > > I'm writing this mail in rmail-mode of emacs on a X display on a system > load between 9 and 29 due a pair running `make -j' in two kernel trees > together with a `tar tfvz <66434131Kb_gzip_tar_on_NFS> > /dev/null '. > > Sometimes it's a bit slow if the load is above 20 :-) ... but it works > quit good. It's only a i586/133 with 64Mb and 80Mb swap. >
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> > > Werner >
I just tried your patch, and it seems to work VERY well. I just did a make -j kernel compile while running netscape, and reading the linux-kernel mailing list. My system load got so high that xload was completely black, but everything worked, and mutt (my mail program) was only a bit sluggish. This is on an AMD K6 200, 32 Megs ram, 64 Megs swap, with the perfect buffer cache patch on top of pre-patch-2.0.31-2 and some IDE patches from Gadi Oxman. This may really be the perfect buffer cache patch. No more thrashing for swap when the system load goes balistic. Good work!
-Erik
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