Re: [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take three

Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13T13:42:48Z

On Wednesday 10 July 2002 22:38, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > How do the BSD and proprietary kernel developers evaluate
> > their VMs?
>
> Proper statistics inside their VM, combined with some
> basic workload testing.
>
> Most importantly, they don't seem to hang themselves
> on benchmarks. Benchmarks can be won by finetuning
> whatever you have but measuring a new basis (still
> without tuning) by benchmarking it just doesn't work.

As I recall, Matt likes to talk about load counts on heavily loaded
mail servers.

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Daniel