Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 1999 19:08:14 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: Perforamnce comparison between 2.3.8 and 2.2.10 |
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Hi,
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 18:57:48 -0700 (PDT), Rudolf Leitgeb <leitgeb@variable.stanford.edu> said:
> 2.2.10: > First test run: 285s user, 26.58s system, 3:30 elapsed > 2.3.8: > First test run: 298s user, 29.8s system, 3:44 elapsed
> I also observed the following: While I did run into swap when I ran > the test under 2.2.10, swapping did not occur under 2.3.8. This makes > it even more surprising that 2.3.8 came out slower than 2.2.10, > especially after the announcement, that 2.3.8 came with speed > improvements for SMP systems.
No, it sounds as if most of the difference is coming from the fact that 2.2.10 _did_ swap, and so had more memory to play with when it camt to doing useful work. Tuning this right is still an ongoing work for 2.3.
--Stephen
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