From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 29 May 2001 06:20:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 29 May 2001 06:20:06 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:49161 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 29 May 2001 06:20:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 12:19:54 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Fabio Riccardi Cc: "Leeuw van der, Tim" , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2 Message-ID: <20010529121954.J26871@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <3B13542A.5DBA3903@chromium.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B13542A.5DBA3903@chromium.com>; from fabio@chromium.com on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:47:54AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 29 2001, Fabio Riccardi wrote: > "Leeuw van der, Tim" wrote: > > > But the claim was that 2.4.5-ac2 is faster than 2.4.5 plain, so which > > changes are in 2.4.5-ac2 that would make it faster than 2.4.5 plain? Also, I > > don't know if 2.4.5-ac1 is as fast as 2.4.5-ac2 for Fabio. If not, then it's > > a change in the 2.4.5-ac2 changelog. If it is as fast, it is one of the > > changes in the 2.4.5-ac1 changelog. > > 2.4.5-ac1 crashed on my machine, vanilla 2.4.5 worked but slower than 2.4.2 > > 2.4.5-ac2 is _a lot_ faster than all the 2.4.4 and of vanilla 2.4.5 > > please notice that I have a 4G machine, dual proc, and I run a very > memory/IO/CPU intensive test, so your mileage may vary with different > applications. Could you try the 4GB I/O patches and see if they boost performance of such cases? *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.5/ -- Jens Axboe