Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 12 Sep 2000 04:23:05 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 |
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> Very stable so far, and having Andrea's VM patches in (I usually > didn't put them in) has made a noticeable difference - xmms has > rarely skipped and things start faster and run smoother. > Hopefully I'll see the same (or better) results from Rik's new > VM in 2.4 when that's released.
I'm working on it. ;)
I've just uploaded a new snapshot of my new VM for 2.4 to my home page, this version contains a wakeup_kswapd() function (copied from wakeup_bdflush) and should balance memory a bit better.
Also, streaming IO seems to be almost back on track.
The large IO delays I'm seeing in certain tests have been traced back to the /elevator/ code. I think I'll be playing with the "close the door on timeout" idea Jeff Merkey proposed some time ago...
(I talked about this with Jens Axboe on irc ... a patch to solve the elevator problems and maybe make a self-tuning elevator (with maximum latency specified in /proc?) should be ready later today)
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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