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At Mon, 2 Feb 2004 23:07:45 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Samium Gromoff <deepfire@sic-elvis.zel.ru> wrote: > > > > > > > > The machine is a dual P3 450MHz, 512MB, aic7xxx, 2 disk RAID-0 and > > > > ReiserFS. It's a few years old and has always run Linux, most > > > > recently 2.4.24. I decided to try 2.6.1 and the performance is > > > > disappointing. > > > > > > 2.6 has a few performance problems under heavy pageout at present. Nick > > > Piggin has some patches which largely fix it up. > > > > I`m sorry, but this is misguiding. 2.6 does not have a few performance > > problems under heavy pageout. > > > > As you have frequently and somewhat redundantly reminded us. Right. I`m rather emotional about this... Kind of hard seeing the all starry and shiny 2.6 going down the toilet on my little server with 16M RAM. > Perhaps you could test Nick's patches. They are at > > http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/vm/ > > Against 2.6.2-rc2-mm2. First revert vm-rss-limit-enforcement.patch, then > apply those three. Hmmm, i`d prefer plain 2.6, but i`ll try it anyway. regards, Samium Gromoff - 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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