Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Jan 2002 20:47:00 +0100 | From | José Luis Domingo López <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable |
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On Thursday, 03 January 2002, at 20:14:42 -0600, M.H.VanLeeuwen wrote:
> Here is what I've run thus far. I'll add nfs file copy into the mix also... > System: SMP 466 Celeron 192M RAM, running KDE, xosview, and other minor apps. > I applied your little patch "vmscan.patch.2.4.17.c" to a plain 2.4.17 source tree, recompiled, and tried it. Swap usage is _much_ less than in original 2.4.17: hardware is a Pentium166 with 64 MB RAM and 75 MB swap, and my workload includes X 4.1.x, icewm, nightly Mozilla, several rxvt, gkrellm, some MP3 listening via XMMS, xchat, several links web browsers and a couple of little daemons runnig.
I have not done scientific measures on swap usage, but with your patch it seems caches don't grow too much, and swap is usually 10-20 MB lower than using plain 2.4.17. I have also observed in /proc/meminfo that "Inactive:" seems to be much lower with your patch.
If someone wants more tests/numbers done/reported, just ask.
Hope this helps.
-- José Luis Domingo López Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Woody (P166 64 MB RAM)
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