From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Jean-Michel.Vansteene@bull.net, Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: SWAP: Linux far behind Solaris or I missed something (fwd)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:05:07 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199812041205.MAA01773@dax.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981203130156.1008D-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home>
Hi,
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 13:03:35 +0100 (CET), Rik van Riel
<H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> said:
> Hi,
> I think we really should be working on this -- anybody
> got a suggestion?
Depends on what the program is doing:
> I've made some tests to load a computer (1GB memory).
> A litle process starts eating 900 MB then slowly eats
> the remainder of the memory 1MB by 1MB and does a
> "data shake": 200,000 times a memcpy of 4000 bytes
> randomly choosen.
are these 4000 bytes chosen randomly from the 1MB currently being
"eaten", or from the whole block of memory currently "eaten"? That
makes a huge difference to the problem. What kernel is this, anyway?
--Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-04 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-03 12:03 SWAP: Linux far behind Solaris or I missed something (fwd) Rik van Riel
1998-12-04 10:41 ` Neil Conway
1998-12-04 14:49 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-12-04 15:23 ` Rik van Riel
1998-12-05 7:51 ` MOLNAR Ingo
1998-12-04 12:05 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
[not found] ` <3667E533.ADFBFDBB@bull.net>
1998-12-04 14:47 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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