Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:05:52 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH *] rmap VM 11c |
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > http://surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.17-rmap-11c > > and http://linuxvm.bkbits.net/
> Rik, I tried a simple test, building a kernel in a 128M P-II-400, and > when the load average got up to 50 or so the system became slow;-) On > the other hand it was still usable for most normal things other then > incoming mail which properly blocks at LA>10 or so.
Hehehe, when the load average is 50 only 2% of the CPU is available for you. With that many gccs you're also under a memory squeeze with 128 MB of RAM, so it's no big wonder things got slow. ;)
I'm happy to hear the system was still usable, though.
> I'll be trying it on a large machine tomorrow, but it at least looks > stable. In real life no sane person would do that, would they? Make > with a nice -10 was essentially invisible.
Neat ...
> Maybe tomorrow the lateest -aa kernel on the same machine, with and > without my own personal patch.
Looking forward to the results.
regards,
Rik -- "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS" -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document
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