Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Jul 1997 10:57:21 -0300 (ADT) | From | "James B. MacLean" <> | Subject | Re(2): Perfect buffer/swapping in pre-patch-2.0.31-2 + a few changes |
| |
Looks good here too ;),
Just to report that this appears to be the smoothest running kernel for me also. All machines are pre-patch-2.0.31-2 + perfect-patches. My FireWall box has not shown a 'free pages' report in it's 2 days of up time (not unusual though). I tried a make -j on my 16meg 486DX/2 66 and watched it use up all of my 32meg swap and spit out some:
kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 {SectorIdNotFound }, CHS=649/6/17, sector=51600
which I expect are caused from my failing drive that I should have fixed before now. It then failed to complete this make because virtual memory was exausted. So I set it to make -j10 which it seemed happy to run with a load of 12 or so and I could still use/do other things.
On an 8meg 486 on a UMSDOS partition, not really stressed, it certainly runs fine.
On a 4meg 386sx25 UMSDOS, I could not see any difference though between this and the original 'Werner?' patches, but again, this is too subjective.
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Erik Andersen wrote:
> I just tried your patch, and it seems to work VERY well. I just did a > make -j kernel compile while running netscape, and reading the linux-kernel > mailing list. My system load got so high that xload was completely black, > but everything worked, and mutt (my mail program) was only a bit sluggish. > This is on an AMD K6 200, 32 Megs ram, 64 Megs swap, with the perfect buffer > cache patch on top of pre-patch-2.0.31-2 and some IDE patches from Gadi Oxman. > This may really be the perfect buffer cache patch. No more thrashing > for swap when the system load goes balistic. Good work! > -Erik > -- > Erik B. Andersen Web: http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ > email: andersee@debian.org
Later, JES -- James B. MacLean macleajb@ednet.ns.ca Department of Education http://www.ednet.ns.ca/~macleajb Nova Scotia, Canada B3M 4B2
| |