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From: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  Re: 2.4.9-ac15 painfully sluggish
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:01:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010926140130.A32255@borg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109251819520.1401-100000@pau.intranet.ct> <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0109251628460.26091-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0109251628460.26091-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:32:13PM -0300

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:32:13PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> I've made a small patch to 2.4.9-ac15 which should make
> page_launder() smoother, make some (very minor) tweaks
> to page aging and updates various comments in vmscan.c

Works for me.  I have the premption patch turned on.

On a 192 MB PIII laptop running at 500 MHz I have two X sessions
running, and have opened a zillion application windows on each,
including over a dozen Netscape windows, some Mozilla's, a couple
emacs's, a kernel compile, Staroffice.  About every app I can
immediately think of.  I haven't tried malloc-ing a ton of memory, but
this contrived real-world test works.

Swap is at 238 MB.  Lower than I would have expected, but that doesn't
mean I know anything.

Switching between X sessions just took near 10-seconds going, and only
about 5-seconds coming back.  Switching in Staroffice is painful, but
generally the responsiveness feels quite nice.

I like it.  Thanks,

-kb, the Kent who will be staying with 2.4.9-ac15, plus preemption
patch, plus this patch--once he figures out how to close all those
windows.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-26 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-25 15:36 2.4.9-ac15 painfully sluggish Pau Aliagas
2001-09-25 16:16 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-25 16:25   ` Pau Aliagas
2001-09-25 16:37     ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-25 17:04       ` Pau Aliagas
2001-09-25 17:31         ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-25 18:01           ` Pau Aliagas
2001-09-25 19:32     ` [PATCH] " Rik van Riel
2001-09-25 20:42       ` Jasper Spaans
2001-09-25 20:52         ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-26  7:36       ` Pau Aliagas
2001-09-26 13:54       ` [PATCH] " Roberto Orenstein
2001-09-26 18:01       ` Kent Borg [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-27  4:27 [PATCH] " Thomas Hood
2001-09-27 12:01 ` Alan Cox

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