Re: How can I help with VIA MVP3 problems?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 12 May 2001 23:58:01 +0100 (BST)


> I have done some tests and my conclusion of the tests below is that there
> is an odd slowdown when compiling kernels, but not anything measurable when
> runnig Livid OMS. As Alan says my VIA MVP3 chipset is older and shouldn't have
> the previosuly mentioned problems.
>
> real 11m22.448s
> user 10m39.480s
> sys 0m42.700s
>
> MemShared: 0 kB <---- Why is this zero? Is it a problem?

No just no longer accounted.

> The same for compiling the exact same 2.4.4-ac8 kernel while running 2.2.16
> real 8m26.279s
> user 7m8.630s
> sys 0m39.260s

And the config looks sane. Yep I'd say thats the VM balancing problems

Alan

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