Re: VM benchmarks

[Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>]

Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
>
> After playing with the active / inactive list balancing a bit,
> I found I can very consistently take 2-3 seconds off a non
> swapping kbuild, and the light swapping case is closer to 2.4.
> Heavy swapping case is better again. Lost a bit in the middle
> though.
> 
> http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/vm/4/
> 
> At the end of this I might come up with something that is very
> suited to kbuild and no good at anything else. Do you have any
> other ideas of what I should test?
> 

The thing people most seem to complain about is big compilations.

Things like a bitkeeper consistency check while dinking with the X UI have
also been noted, but that's a bit hard to quantify.

Maybe ask Roger to try his efax workload?


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