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SubjectRe: cache limit
Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:15:46PM +0200, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote:
>> If I have 1GB of memory and my applications for use only 16MB - it
>>doesn't mean I want to fill 1GB-16MB with garbage like file my momy had
>>viewed two weeks ago.
>>
>> That's it: OS should scale for *application* *needs*.
>>
>> Can you compare in your mind overhead of managing 1GB of cache with
>>managing e.g. 16MB of cache?
>>
>
> Ok, let's benchmark it.
>
> Yes, I can see the logic in your argument, but at this point, numbers are
> needed to see if or how much of a win this might be.

[ I beleive you can see those thread about O_STREAMING patch.
Not-caching was giving 10%-15% peformance boost for gcc on kernel
compiles. Isn't that overhead? ]

I will try to produce some benchmarktings tomorrow with different
'mem=%dMB'. I'm afraid to confirm that it will make difference.
But in advance: mantainance of page tables for 1GB and for 128MB of
RAM are going to make a difference.

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