From: Con Kolivas <conman@kolivas.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.44-mm6 contest results
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:11:48 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1035882708.3dbe50d48e92f@kolivas.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DBE2EBE.DC860105@digeo.com>
Quoting Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>:
> Con Kolivas wrote:
> >
> > io_load:
> > Kernel [runs] Time CPU% Loads LCPU% Ratio
> > 2.5.44 [3] 873.8 9 69 12 12.24
> > 2.5.44-mm1 [3] 347.3 22 35 15 4.86
> > 2.5.44-mm2 [3] 294.2 28 19 10 4.12
> > 2.5.44-mm4 [3] 358.7 23 25 10 5.02
> > 2.5.44-mm5 [4] 270.7 29 18 11 3.79
> > 2.5.44-mm6 [3] 284.1 28 20 10 3.98
>
> Jens, I think I prefer fifo_batch=16. We do need to expose
> these in /somewhere so people can fiddle with them.
>
> >...
> > mem_load:
> > Kernel [runs] Time CPU% Loads LCPU% Ratio
> > 2.5.44 [3] 114.3 67 30 2 1.60
> > 2.5.44-mm1 [3] 159.7 47 38 2 2.24
> > 2.5.44-mm2 [3] 116.6 64 29 2 1.63
> > 2.5.44-mm4 [3] 114.9 65 28 2 1.61
> > 2.5.44-mm5 [4] 114.1 65 30 2 1.60
> > 2.5.44-mm6 [3] 226.9 33 50 2 3.18
> >
> > Mem load has dropped off again
>
> Well that's one interpretation. The other is "goody, that pesky
> kernel compile isn't slowing down my important memory-intensive
> whateveritis so much". It's a tradeoff.
>
> It appears that this change was caused by increasing the default
> value of /proc/sys/vm/page-cluster from 3 to 4. I am surprised.
>
> It was only of small benefit in other tests so I'll ditch that one.
I understand the trade off issue. Since make -j4 bzImage is 4 cpu hungry
processes, ideally I'm guessing mem_load should only extend the duration and
drop the cpu by 25%.
> (You're still testing with all IO against the same disk, yes? Please
> rememeber that things change quite significantly when the swap IO
> or the io_load is against a different device)
Yes I am. Sorry I just dont have the hardware to do anything else.
Con
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-29 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-29 1:43 [BENCHMARK] 2.5.44-mm6 contest results Con Kolivas
2002-10-29 6:46 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-29 7:40 ` Jens Axboe
2002-10-29 7:51 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-29 8:22 ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-29 9:11 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
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