Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:35:55 +0200 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 |
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:14:22 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
> > Very willing. Just send it to me, please. > > It's there as 2.4.10pre10, on ftp.kernel.org under "testing" now. > > However, note that it hasn't gotten any "tweaking", ie there's none of the > small changes that aging differences usually tend to need. I'm hoping > that's ok, as the new behaviour shouldn't be that different from the old > behaviour in most cases, and that the biggest differences _should_ be just > proper once-use things. > > But it would be interesting to hear which loads show markedly worse/better > behaviour. If any.
Hello,
I tried my usual test setup today with 2.4.10-pre10 and experienced the following:
- cpu load goes pretty high (11-12 according to xosview)during several occasions, upto the point where you cannot even move the mouse. Compared to an once tested ac-version it is not _that_ nice. I have some problems cat'ing /proc/meminfo, too. I takes sometimes pretty long (minutes).
- the meminfo shows me great difference to former versions in the balancing of inact_dirty and active. This pre10 tends to have a _lot_ more inact_dirty pages than active (compared to pre9 and before) in my test. I guess this is intended by this (used-once) patch. So take this as a hint, that your work performs as expected.
- of course the alloc problems itself stayed the same.
Regards, Stephan
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