Re: Fwd: VM testing with mtest, 2.4.12-ac3, 2.4.12-ac3+riel's patches, and 2.4.13aa1

[Josh McKinney]

On approximately Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:06:46AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2001  01:51 -0500, Josh McKinney wrote:
> > This is a report of the mtest01 scripts posted by [e-mail]
> > a day orso ago.
> > 
> > The numbers are rather interesting.  While the latency of the ac kernels is
> > definitely better, the song only dropped out for a second or two in the
> > begining but that was it.  The aa kernel drops out more frequently throughout
> > the test, but the amount of memory allocated is almost twice as much as with
> > the ac kernels.
> 
> -ac kernel:
> > Averages for 10 mtest01 runs
> > bytes allocated:                    134427443.2
> > User time (seconds):                2.546
> > System time (seconds):              1.370
> > Elapsed (wall clock) time:          4.798
> > Percent of CPU this job got:        89.1%
> > Major (requiring I/O) page faults:  103.8
> > Minor (reclaiming a frame) faults:  32702
> 
> -ac kernel + Rik's patches:
> > Averages for 10 mtest01 runs
> > bytes allocated:                    124885401.6
> > User time (seconds):                2.380
> > System time (seconds):              1.253
> > Elapsed (wall clock) time:          4.401
> > Percent of CPU this job got:        89.1%
> > Major (requiring I/O) page faults:  100.2
> > Minor (reclaiming a frame) faults:  30363.3
> 
> Linus kernel:
> > Averages for 10 mtest01 runs
> > bytes allocated:                    288148684.8
> > User time (seconds):                5.496
> > System time (seconds):              3.003
> > Elapsed (wall clock) time:          12.250
> > Percent of CPU this job got:        68.9%
> > Major (requiring I/O) page faults:  103.5
> > Minor (reclaiming a frame) faults:  70380.6
> 
> Note that the Linus kernel has allocated twice as much memory.  What does that
> mean exactly?  The user/system/wall time is also twice as high.  Somehow I
> don't think you are having an equal test.
> 
> Cheers, Andreas

I thought that was strange myself, which is why I metioned it in the begining.
Also when I seen the results I reran the tests, all in single user mode,
freshreboot, put linux single on the CL, voila, sh mtest01.sh & mpg123 some.mp3,
and there is my test.  I know the numbers are crazy and I also know the
importance of having all other variables the same.

Josh
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