Results: pre6 vs pre6+zlatko's_patch vs pre5 vs arcavm13

Steve Bergman
1999-01-09T22:41:52Z

In an effort to streamline testing, I am now running just:

make depend; make clean; make bzlilo

and leaving out the modules part. I am also compiling only a minimal kernel
with no options at all selected in menuconfig. I have added an idle mysql
server to the mix, which still includes netscape and a number of the usual
daemons (sendmail, lpd, inetd, etc.) along with vmstat 1, top, and ping
remote_host. Please remember Linus' caution about the "swaps" number. Here are
the latest results:

In 16MB:

pre6+zlatko_patch 5:29 192527 149728 3554
pre6 5:27 192002 149694 4257
pre5 5:28 188566 148674 5646
arcavm13 5:32 188560 148234 1594

Really putting on the squeeze, I tried out mem=12M which forced about 24MB into
the swap area.

In 12MB:

pre6+zlatko_patch 22:14 383206 204482 57823
pre6 20:54 352934 191210 48678
pre5 Did not test
arcavm13 19:45 344452 180243 38977

They all seem about the same in 16MB. arcavm13 looks good in 12MB. Zlatko, let
me know if you have any specific tests you want me to run on your patch.

-Steve