From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:31:30 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <424A0172.2010609@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0503291656060.6036@ppc970.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
>
>>Linus Torvalds wrote on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:00 PM
>>
>>>The fact that it seems to fluctuate pretty wildly makes me wonder
>>>how stable the numbers are.
>>
>>I can't resist myself from bragging. The high point in the fluctuation
>>might be because someone is working hard trying to make 2.6 kernel run
>>faster. Hint hint hint ..... ;-)
>
>
> Heh. How do you explain the low-point? If there's somebody out there
> working hard on making it run slower, I want to whack the guy ;)
>
If it is doing a lot of mapping/unmapping (or fork/exit), then that
might explain why 2.6.11 is worse.
Fortunately there are more patches to improve this on the way.
Kernel profiles would be useful if possible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-30 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-28 19:33 Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-28 19:50 ` Dave Hansen
2005-03-28 20:01 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-30 0:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-30 0:22 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-30 0:46 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-30 0:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-30 1:31 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2005-03-30 1:38 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-30 1:56 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-31 14:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-31 19:53 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-31 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-31 20:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-31 22:14 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-03-31 23:35 ` Nick Piggin
2005-04-01 6:05 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-01 6:34 ` Nick Piggin
2005-04-01 7:19 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-01 6:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-01 22:32 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-04-01 22:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-02 2:19 ` Nick Piggin
2005-04-04 1:40 ` Kevin Puetz
2005-04-02 1:44 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-02 2:05 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-04-02 2:38 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-03 6:36 ` David Lang
2005-04-03 6:53 ` Andreas Dilger
2005-04-03 7:23 ` David Lang
2005-04-03 7:38 ` Nick Piggin
2005-04-01 6:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-01 9:29 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-01 10:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-01 14:39 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-01 4:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-01 5:14 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-04-01 22:51 ` Chen, Kenneth W
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-01 16:34 Manfred Spraul
2005-04-02 1:00 Chen, Kenneth W
2005-04-02 2:12 ` Nick Piggin
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