Re: memory handling in pre5/pre6

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:56:02 -0300 (BRST)


On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Alexander Demenshin wrote:

> Kernel - 2.3.99-pre6-5 (as is), Slackware 7.0 (libc6).

Kernel 2.3.99-pre6 + 2 of my patches
also running a 180MB haskell interpreter, on a 64MB
machine

> $ find / -xdev -type f | xargs -n 1 -P 100 md5sum

Using only 10 md5sums (because of smaller memory and
because I want to see the impact it has on how much
cpu the big memory hog can still get) the system seems
to run just fine...

There is still one issue to resolve with my patch (it
isn't very good in the face of heavy disk writes), but
once that's fixed everything should be ok.

So to answer your question, there's no big need to worry
about 2.4 performance, but I *would* like your feedback
on my patches (http://www.surriel.com/patches) so that I
can tune the algorithms for your workloads too.

regards,

Rik

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