Re: [BENCHMARKS] 2.6 kbuild results (with add_to_swap patch)

Nick Piggin
2004-02-04T05:11:06Z

Rik van Riel wrote:

>On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Nick Piggin wrote:
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>>Small big significantly better on kbuild when tested on top of the other
>>two patches (dont-rotate-active-list and my mapped-fair).
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>Where can I grab those ?
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>>With this patch as well, we are now as good or better than 2.4 on
>>medium and heavy swapping kbuilds and much better than stock 2.6
>>with light swapping loads (not as good as 2.4 but close).
>>
>>http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/vm/3/
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>Neat! Does it have any side effects to interactive
>desktop behaviour ?
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>

Hi Rik,
I've just tried the latest patchset on my desktop system. Doing
a make -j4 bzImage, hdparm -t /dev/hda in a loop, mozilla, gnome
xterms etc.

Nothing bad is happening, although I'm only just touching swap.