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DateTue, 03 Feb 2004 18:57:27 +1100
FromNick Piggin <>
SubjectRe: 2.6.1 slower than 2.4, smp/scsi/sw-raid/reiserfs

Samium Gromoff wrote:

>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.
>
> 
>

It should go against plain 2.6 with luck.

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