Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:38:45 +0100 (CET) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: [patch] new-vm improvement [Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary] |
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > Ben McCann writes: > > > Note the wall-clock time increases from 18 minutes to almost > > 22 minutes and the number of page faults increases from 188,000 > > to 298,500. It seems something is invalidating pages too > > aggressively in your patch. > > > > Is there something I can tune to improve this? Is there an > > experiment I can run to help fine-tune your VM changes? > > For the past few weeks, VM patches and benchmark results have been > going back and forth. I start to worry that Linux is being tuned > to run benchmarks, not to run useful software. Please be careful.
Best insurance against this concern is to test alpha patches against favorite useful application and report results to developers.
-Mike
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