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, 25 Sep 2001 12:18:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:18:03 -0400 Received: from mail.teraport.de ([195.143.8.72]:37519 "EHLO mail.teraport.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:17:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3BB0AE43.BC36820F@TeraPort.de> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:18:11 +0200 From: Martin Knoblauch Organization: TeraPort GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" CC: riel@conectiva.com.br Subject: Re: 2.4.10 much better than previous 2.4.x :-) X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 09/25/2001 06:18:11 PM, Serialize by Router on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 09/25/2001 06:18:19 PM, Serialize complete at 09/25/2001 06:18:19 PM Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Re: 2.4.10 much better than previous 2.4.x :-) > > > On 24 Sep 2001, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > > This is mainly a thank you for 2.4.10. It performs much better than > > 2.4.7 (RedHat version), from which I upgraded. Interactive performance > > for applications (Gnome, Evolution, Mozilla) is much improved, > > If you have the time, could you also test 2.4.9-ac15 ? > > (The -ac VM has basically branched off at 2.4.7 and has > evolved quite a bit since ... last week I fixed a stupid > page aging bug and things should be a lot better than > before now) > > regards, > > Rik > Rik, just did a short test with both 2.4.9-ac15 and 2.4.10 plain on a Notebook with 320 MB and twice as much swap. "/" is on reiserfs. Both look a lot better that anything before. With my workload of netscape, NT_under_vmware (128 MB memory) and a kernel compile I am not using swap for the first time since in 2.4.x. My feeling is that 2.4.10 behaves a bit better with high I/O activity on the reiserfs partition. Maybe this can be attributed to the latest reiserfs stuff that went into 2.4.10, but not yet in -ac. The responsiveness when "suspending" the vmware session has definitely improved with 2.4.10. With 2.4.9-ac the system "freezes" for some seconds during that operation. In any case, good work in both trees. Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch | email: Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de TeraPort GmbH | Phone: +49-89-510857-309 C+ITS | Fax: +49-89-510857-111 http://www.teraport.de | Mobile: +49-170-4904759