From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263760AbUACTyH (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 14:54:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263772AbUACTyH (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 14:54:07 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:41746 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263760AbUACTyC (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 14:54:02 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Bill Davidsen Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.0 performance problems Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 14:54:10 -0500 Organization: TMR Associates, Inc Message-ID: References: <87brpq7ct3.wl@canopus.ns.zel.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1073158924 13154 192.168.12.10 (3 Jan 2004 19:42:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87brpq7ct3.wl@canopus.ns.zel.ru> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Samium Gromoff wrote: > Reality sucks. > > People are ignorant enough to turn blind eye to obvious vm regressions. > > No developers run 64M boxens anymore... Developers shound NOT be running slow machines, but they should be testing slow machines. I do my builds on a four way Xeon machine, and install on a slow machine for test. If you look at some of the response testing I'm doing, it's one a 96MB p3-350, just for that reason. And I have a P5-133 I built but haven't really benchmarked yet, it has only 64MB. I think the place such slow machines are relevant is embedded, which is why I occasionally rant about locking in code to hide Athlon CPU bugs which just wastes space on unbroken machines. I have a pile of 486 machines I want to run as firewalls, don't plan to do kernel builds on those, either :-( -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979