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On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:29:50 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Roger Luethi wrote: > > > One potential problem with the benchmarks is that my test box has > > just one bar with 256 MB RAM. The kbuild and efax tests were run with > > mem=64M and mem=32M, respectively. If the difference between mem=32M > > and a real 32 MB machine is significant for the benchmark, > > Could you try "echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/lower_zone_protection" ? Defaults to 0 anyway, doesn't it? Turning it _on_ seems to slow benchmarks down somewhat (< 5%). In one of ten runs, though, the efax test stopped doing anything for ten minutes -- no disk activity, no progress whatsoever. Roger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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