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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: vmscan.c heuristic adjustment for smaller systems
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 14:33:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040417213333.GS743@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040417212958.GA8722@flea>

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:38:55PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Marc Singer reported an issue where an embedded ARM system performed
>> poorly due to page replacement potentially prematurely replacing
>> mapped memory where there was very little mapped pagecache in use to
>> begin with.
>> Marc Singer has results where this is an improvement, and hopefully can
>> clarify as-needed. Help determining whether this policy change is an
>> improvement for a broader variety of systems would be appreciated.

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:29:58PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> I have some numbers to clarify the 'improvement'.
> Setup:
>   ARM922 CPU, 200MHz, 32MiB RAM
>   NFS mounted rootfs, tcp, hard, v3, 4K blocks
>   Test application copies 41MiB file and prints the elapsed time
> The two scenarios differ only in the setting of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness.

This doesn't match your first response. Anyway, this one is gets
scrapped. I guess if swappiness solves it, then so much the better.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-17 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-17 19:38 vmscan.c heuristic adjustment for smaller systems William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-17 21:29 ` Marc Singer
2004-04-17 21:33   ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-04-17 21:52     ` Marc Singer
2004-04-18  1:06       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-18  5:05         ` Marc Singer
2004-04-17 23:21   ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-17 23:30     ` Marc Singer
2004-04-17 23:51       ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-18  0:11         ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-18  0:23         ` Marc Singer
2004-04-18  3:37           ` Nick Piggin
2004-04-18  4:17             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-18  4:41               ` Nick Piggin
2004-04-18  5:10                 ` Marc Singer
2004-04-18  5:19                   ` Nick Piggin
2004-04-18  5:35                     ` Marc Singer
2004-04-18  5:41                       ` Nick Piggin
2004-04-18 23:44                         ` Marc Singer
2004-04-18  9:29           ` Russell King
2004-04-18  1:59         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-18  3:53           ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-18  5:38             ` Marc Singer
2004-04-18  5:52               ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-18  6:15                 ` Marc Singer
2004-04-19  0:26                   ` Rik van Riel
2004-04-19  0:39                     ` Marc Singer

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