Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:14:01 -0500 | From | Seth Jennings <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] promote zcache from staging |
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On 08/09/2012 03:20 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote > I also wonder if you have anything else unusual in your > test setup, such as a fast swap disk (mine is a partition > on the same rotating disk as source and target of the kernel build, > the default install for a RHEL6 system)?
I'm using a normal SATA HDD with two partitions, one for swap and the other an ext3 filesystem with the kernel source.
> Or have you disabled cleancache?
Yes, I _did_ disable cleancache. I could see where having cleancache enabled could explain the difference in results.
> Or have you changed any sysfs parameters or > other kernel files?
No.
> And are you using 512M of physical memory or relying on > kernel boot parameters to reduce visible memory
Limited with mem=512M boot parameter.
> ... and > if the latter have you confirmed with /proc/meminfo?
Yes, confirmed.
Seth
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