Re: Fw: [Bug 4520] New: /proc/*/maps fragments too quickly compared to

Ingo Molnar
2005-05-10T19:58:54Z

* Wolfgang Wander <wwc@rentec.com> wrote:

> I volunteer to do the testing - just the test I got from Ingo did
> not show any timing difference for either of the three solutions:
>
> a) use free_cache
> b) disable free_cache
> c) use my maybe improved and maybe much too complex free_cache
>
> The test_str02.c I got only ran up to 1300 threads on my machine (8GB
> dual x86_64) and Ingo expected it to go up to 20000.

do something like 'ulimit -s 128k' to reduce the thread stack sizes, to
be able to run more threads. You are running an x86 (not x64) kernel to
test, right?

Ingo