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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] promote zcache from staging
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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