Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:32:13 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: kswapd etc hogging machine |
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 14:51:01 -0200 (BRST) > Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > 2.4.1x VM code is performing better under light loads but its > > > absolutely and completely hopeless under a real paging load. 2.4.17-aa > > > is somewhat better interestingly. > > > > A quick 'make -j bzImage' test I did yesterday got the system > > to use near 70% of its CPU time in user mode and 30% in system > > mode. This was with 2.4.17-rmap-10b, btw. > > And what kind of an argument is this? This is an honest question, > really. If I do this make I end up around 80-90% in user mode and the > rest in system on a standard 2.4.17 SMP box (configured with too less > swap btw).
How much memory does that box have ?
In my case it was with 512 MB of RAM, the system went almost 900 MB into swap.
If your machine has one GB of RAM (or more), I expect the gccs to fit mostly into RAM, which would give much better behaviour.
regards,
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