Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:34:40 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: VM Report was:Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps |
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On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, John Stoffel wrote:
> > I agree, this isn't really a good test case. I'd rather see what > > happens when you fire up a gimp session to edit an image which is > > *almost* the size of RAM, or even just 50% the size of ram. > > OK, riddle me this. If this test is a crummy test, just how is it
Personally, I'd like to see BOTH of these tests, and many many more.
Preferably, handed to the VM hackers in various colourful graphs that allow even severely undercaffeinated hackers to see how things changed for the good or the bad between kernel revisions.
cheers,
Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose...
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