Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 04 Sep 2000 02:17:56 -0400 | From | safemode <> |
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I cant test this patch by doing tests that go into swap. You add a variable that wasn't used in the 100MB tests and going into swap would no doubt cause major performance drops from this 100MB test no matter what VM you used. The added overhead is very dependent on too many variables to compare results. It's best to stay in memory with the benchmark. Possibly with many small files instead of one large one and disable swap altogether. Most users and developers dont deal with 400MB files anyway, they deal with many many small files most not larger than 5MB. a benchmark of dealing with these would be much more meaningful than finding some extreme example to show a weakness that is obviously going to be there because of physical restricitions alone. Oh, and btw, i ran the test anyway and it was lower than when i had run it with the normal swap partition on the same drive. So the fs overhead is a huge factor .... the lesson of the day, use swap partitions ....not swap files
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