Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 19 May 2001 18:41:55 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 |
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On Sat, 19 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are > > trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also > > why magic numbers tend to suck in the VM.) > > Magic numbers might be sucking some performance right now ;-)
... so you replace them with some others ... ;)
> Three back to back make -j 30 runs for three different kernels. > Swap cache numbers are taken immediately after last completion.
The performance increase is nice, though. Do you see similar changes in different kinds of workloads ?
> (yes, the last hunk looks out of place wrt my text.
It also looks kind of bogus and geared completely towards this particular workload ;)
regards,
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