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From: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
To: Samium Gromoff <deepfire@sic-elvis.zel.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0 performance problems
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:09:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401051009.46293.edt@aei.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87smiud180.wl@canopus.ns.zel.ru>

On January 05, 2004 07:33 am, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> At Tue, 30 Dec 2003 08:55:00 -0500,
>
> Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > On December 30, 2003 06:41 am, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> > > Reality sucks.
> > >
> > > People are ignorant enough to turn blind eye to obvious vm regressions.
> > >
> > > No developers run 64M boxens anymore...
> >
> > No one is turning a blind eye.  Notice Linus has reponded to and is
> > interested in this thread.  The vm is not perfect in all cases - in most
> > cases it is faster though...
>
> "in most cases it is faster" is a big lie.
>
> The reality is: on all usual one-way boxes 2.6 goes slower than 2.4 once
> you start paging.

I would argue that in most case you do not page or page very little - know that is 
the case here.

In any case it does point out what part of the system needs to be improved.

Ed

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-05 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-30 11:41 2.6.0 performance problems Samium Gromoff
2004-01-03 19:54 ` Bill Davidsen
     [not found] ` <200312300855.00741.edt@aei.ca>
2004-01-05 12:33   ` Samium Gromoff
2004-01-05 15:09     ` Ed Tomlinson [this message]
2004-01-06  2:23       ` David Lang
2004-01-06 14:44         ` Samium Gromoff
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-29 22:07 Thomas Molina
2003-12-29 22:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-29 22:58   ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-29 23:04     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-30 14:14       ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30 14:39         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-30 21:14           ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30 21:23             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-31  0:50               ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-31  1:01                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-31  1:34                 ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-31 11:25                   ` bert hubert
2003-12-30 21:35             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-30 23:46             ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-30 18:20         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-29 23:14     ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-30  5:09       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-30 10:27         ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-29 23:25     ` David B. Stevens
2003-12-29 23:05   ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-29 23:43     ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-30  0:17       ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30  1:23         ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-30  1:27         ` Dave Jones
2003-12-30  1:37           ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-30  1:40             ` Dave Jones
2003-12-30  1:49             ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30  2:03               ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-03 19:37     ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-30  1:25 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-30  1:37   ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30 19:21     ` Andy Isaacson
2003-12-30 19:40       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-30 22:24         ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-31  0:33           ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-31 10:17             ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-31 11:21               ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-31 21:03                 ` Roger Luethi
2004-01-01  1:27                   ` Thomas Molina
2004-01-01 10:23                     ` Roger Luethi
2004-01-01 23:09                 ` Roger Luethi
2004-01-02 10:11                   ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-30  1:27 ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30  2:53   ` Thomas Molina

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