Re: 2.6.0-test3-mm1

William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-11T23:39:43Z

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:17:04PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> kpmd_ctor() is unusual; how many runs does this profile represent?
>> Does it represent the first run? Ideally, all your kernel pmd's should
>> be cached. If it's not the first run, then logged slab cache statistics
>> would be interesting to determine whether this is still the case even
>> while effective cacheing is going on or whether slab cache reaping is
>> blowing these things away (i.e. either ineffective cacheing is happening
>> or for some reason cacheing them isn't good enough).

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 03:50:29PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> It's the average of 5 runs, after an initial warmup run which is discarded.

Okay, logging /proc/slabinfo and /proc/meminfo at various points
throughout the run would be helpful here.

-- wli