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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
	kernel@kolivas.org, chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mbligh@aracnet.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9 - poor swap performance on low end machines
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 03:06:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031217110648.GB31393@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031217110336.GA5615@k3.hellgate.ch>

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:29:50 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> Could you try "echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/lower_zone_protection" ?

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:03:37PM +0100, Roger Luethi wrote:
> Defaults to 0 anyway, doesn't it? Turning it _on_ seems to slow
> benchmarks down somewhat (< 5%). In one of ten runs, though, the efax
> test stopped doing anything for ten minutes -- no disk activity, no
> progress whatsoever.

Sorry about that, that got brought up elsewhere but not propagated out
to lkml. Hearing more about the various degradations you've identified
would be helpful.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-17 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-29 22:30 2.6.0-test9 - poor swap performance on low end machines Chris Vine
2003-10-31  3:57 ` Rik van Riel
2003-10-31 11:26   ` Roger Luethi
2003-10-31 12:37     ` Con Kolivas
2003-10-31 12:59       ` Roger Luethi
2003-10-31 12:55     ` Ed Tomlinson
2003-11-01 18:34       ` Pasi Savolainen
2003-11-06 18:40       ` bill davidsen
2003-10-31 21:52   ` Chris Vine
2003-11-02 23:06   ` Chris Vine
2003-11-03  0:48     ` Con Kolivas
2003-11-03 21:13       ` Chris Vine
2003-11-04  2:55         ` Con Kolivas
2003-11-04 22:08           ` Chris Vine
2003-11-04 22:30             ` Con Kolivas
2003-12-08 13:52           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-08 14:23             ` Con Kolivas
2003-12-08 14:30               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-09 21:03               ` Chris Vine
2003-12-13 14:08               ` Chris Vine
2003-12-08 19:49             ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-08 20:48               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-09  0:27                 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-09  4:05                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-09 15:11                     ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-09 16:04                       ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-09 16:31                         ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-09 18:31                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-09 19:38                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-10 13:58                         ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-10 17:47                           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-10 22:23                             ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-11  0:12                               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-10 21:04                           ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-10 23:17                             ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-11  1:31                               ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-11 10:16                                 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-10 23:30                           ` Helge Hafting
2003-12-10 21:52                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-10 22:05                   ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-10 22:44                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-11  1:28                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11  1:32                         ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-11 10:16                       ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-15 23:31                       ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-15 23:37                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-15 23:54                           ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-16  0:17                             ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-16 11:23                             ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-16 16:29                               ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-17 11:03                                 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-17 11:06                                   ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-12-17 16:50                                     ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-17 11:33                                   ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-17 18:53                               ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-17 19:27                                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-17 19:51                                   ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-17 19:49                                 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-17 21:41                                   ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-17 21:41                                   ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-18  0:21                                     ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-18 22:53                                       ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-18 23:38                                         ` William Lee Irwin III

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