Re: SWAP: Linux far behind Solaris or I missed something (fwd)

Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-12-04T12:07:20Z

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