From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Ray Bryant <raybry@sgi.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
riel@redhat.com, piggin@cyberone.com.au
Subject: Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:23:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040909172332.GZ3106@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414065A8.20508@sgi.com>
William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Please log periodic snapshots of /proc/vmstat during runs on kernel
>> versions before and after major behavioral shifts.
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:16:08AM -0500, Ray Bryant wrote:
> Attached is the output you requested for two kernel versions: 2.6.8.1-mm4
> and 2.6.9-rc1-mm3 + the nrmap_patch (that patch didn't make much difference
> so this should be good enough for comparison purposes, and it was the
> kernel I had built.)
> Because there are so many parameters in /proc/vmstat, I had to split the
> output up (more or less arbitarily) into three files to get something you
> could actually look at with an editor. Even then it requires 100 columns
> or so.
This will do fine. I'll examine these for anomalous maintenance of
statistics and/or operational variables used to drive page replacement.
Thanks.
-- wli
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Ray Bryant <raybry@sgi.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
riel@redhat.com, piggin@cyberone.com.au
Subject: Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:23:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040909172332.GZ3106@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414065A8.20508@sgi.com>
William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Please log periodic snapshots of /proc/vmstat during runs on kernel
>> versions before and after major behavioral shifts.
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:16:08AM -0500, Ray Bryant wrote:
> Attached is the output you requested for two kernel versions: 2.6.8.1-mm4
> and 2.6.9-rc1-mm3 + the nrmap_patch (that patch didn't make much difference
> so this should be good enough for comparison purposes, and it was the
> kernel I had built.)
> Because there are so many parameters in /proc/vmstat, I had to split the
> output up (more or less arbitarily) into three files to get something you
> could actually look at with an editor. Even then it requires 100 columns
> or so.
This will do fine. I'll examine these for anomalous maintenance of
statistics and/or operational variables used to drive page replacement.
Thanks.
-- wli
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-09 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-06 19:11 swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness Ray Bryant
2004-09-06 20:10 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-06 20:10 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-06 21:22 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-06 21:22 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-06 21:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-06 21:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-06 22:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-06 22:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-06 23:51 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-06 23:51 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-07 0:31 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-07 0:31 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-06 22:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-06 22:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-06 23:09 ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-06 23:09 ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-06 23:27 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-06 23:27 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-06 23:34 ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-06 23:34 ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-07 0:03 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-07 0:03 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-07 1:34 ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-07 1:34 ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-07 10:38 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-07 10:38 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-07 10:56 ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-08 16:45 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-08 16:45 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-09 1:12 ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-07 17:03 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-07 17:03 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-07 21:20 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-07 21:20 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-08 2:18 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-08 2:18 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-08 14:20 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-08 16:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-08 16:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-08 19:35 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-08 19:35 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-08 19:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-08 19:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-09 3:06 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-09 3:06 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-09 2:14 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-09 2:14 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-09 14:21 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-09 14:21 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-09 3:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 3:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 14:16 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-09 17:23 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-09-09 17:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-28 1:54 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-28 3:36 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-28 3:36 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-29 0:36 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-29 4:23 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-29 4:23 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-30 17:15 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-30 17:15 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-08 17:31 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-08 17:31 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-08 18:04 ` Rik van Riel
2004-09-08 18:04 ` Rik van Riel
2004-09-08 19:50 ` Diego Calleja
2004-09-08 19:50 ` Diego Calleja
2004-09-08 21:10 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-08 21:10 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-08 21:55 ` Diego Calleja
2004-09-08 21:55 ` Diego Calleja
2004-09-08 22:20 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-08 22:20 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-08 23:22 ` Rik van Riel
2004-09-08 23:22 ` Rik van Riel
2004-09-09 16:26 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-08 22:28 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-08 22:28 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-08 23:42 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-08 23:42 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-08 19:54 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-08 19:54 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-08 15:19 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-08 15:19 ` Ray Bryant
2004-09-14 18:31 ` Florin Andrei
2004-09-14 20:15 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-14 22:53 ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-14 21:41 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-15 0:22 ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-16 18:50 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-17 0:22 ` Con Kolivas
2004-09-15 16:54 ` Florin Andrei
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