From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nikita@Namesys.COM
Subject: Re: 2.6.4-rc1-mm1
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 12:45:01 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4042959D.5020100@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40429228.1080301@cyberone.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> One point I would make is that if a workload is only achieving 5% CPU
>> anyway, we shouldn't optimise for it. Sure, it's nice to be able to
>> get it
>> up to 7% but it is much more important to get the 50% CPU workload up to
>> 70%. The 5% problem is a fiscal one, not an engineering one ;)
>>
>
> I agree. I'm much more interested in getting light and medium swapping
> working better.
>
Just so I'm not misunderstood, I must add that I found Nikita's
patch to definitely help light and medium swapping kbuild runs.
The fact that it *really* helped heavy swapping is a bonus.
But I agree that we need more meaningful tests too. Maybe things
like overloading apache or a mail or database server might be
interesting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-01 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-29 22:06 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-02-29 22:24 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-29 22:31 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-03-02 13:52 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 bill davidsen
2004-03-01 1:02 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 Nick Piggin
2004-03-01 1:14 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-03-01 1:30 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 Nick Piggin
2004-03-01 1:45 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-03-01 2:05 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-03-01 1:10 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm1: multiple definitions of `debug' Adrian Bunk
2004-03-01 1:41 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-01 17:49 ` Torrey Hoffman
2004-03-01 1:39 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-03-01 1:46 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-03-01 11:26 ` posix message queues, was 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 bert hubert
2004-03-01 14:27 ` Krzysztof Benedyczak
2004-03-01 16:41 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-03-02 13:38 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-03-02 20:45 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm1, as scheduler causes higher idle temp? Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-03-02 21:11 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-02 21:39 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-02 0:20 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 Pedro Larroy
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