Re: VM benchmarks

[Nick Piggin <piggin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Morton wrote:

>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?
>
>
>

efax is a compilation as well. I would be up for trying it, but it
needs quite a lot of GUI dev libraries installed to compile it.
I'll get onto it sometime I suppose, but for now I'll try to leave
my test box unchanged.

Unfortunately starting mozilla / kde / openoffice is another one
people complain about but harder to test...

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