Re: [TEST] 2.4 vs 2.6.2 vs 2.6.2-mm1 vs 2.6.2-rc3-mm1

[Samium Gromoff <deepfire@sic-elvis.zel.ru>]

At Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:53:36 +1100,
Nick Piggin wrote:
> Samium Gromoff wrote:
[snip]
> >		2.4.20-pre9	2.6.2		2.6.2-mm1	2.6.2-rc3-mm1
> >
> >Load 1
> >  run1		6.27		9.14		9.42		10.52
> >
> >Load 2
> >  run1		3.29		4.42		3.40		3.45
> >  run2		3.28		4.37		3.39		3.45
> >
> >Load 3
> >  run1		4.42		8.39		18.26
> >
> >
> >short summary:
> >
> >	2.4 is faster.
> >
> >
> 
> What are the units? minutes.seconds?
Right.

> The test is interesting, I'll have to try it. Does it
> resemble a workload you're interested in?
Basically, yes.

> It looks like the -mm kernels might have something other
> than Nikita's and my VM patches that is affecting times.
> 
> Your Load 3 looks quite bad. Does it give decent results?
> Is it possibly because the other stuff is getting better
> treatment, do you think?
Everything else was basically idle.
The test script generated something like 15 rows of text,
which hardly could be considered noticeable...

> Thanks
> Nick

regards, Samium Gromoff