Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Paolo Ciarrocchi" <> | Date | Sun, 25 Aug 2002 02:58:38 +0800 | Subject | Re: Combined performance patches update for 2.4.19 |
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From: conman@kolivas.net Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 22:21:37 +1000
> > > > BTW, thank you for your great work!! > > > > > > My pleasure, but really the hard work is done by the developers! > > Sure, but your "performance" approach is really intersting! Do you use a > > benchmark? > > I don't really have the time to benchmark these things any more than "it feels > faster". Really I'm spending way too much time on this as it is and I'm not > remotely any authority on what benchmarks to use. Maybe I can find the time to run a few tests, can anyone suggest me an "intersting" test?
> > > > I'm also testing the compressed cache (the > > > > patch you've discarded, and I got good performance!) > > > > > > I'm thinking of eventually merging the latest version of this into 2.4.19 > > too > > > since it can be enabled or disabled. Depends on the demand. > > Just an hint ('cause I made some of the test you can see on the compressed > > cache web page on sourceforge), > > if you use that patch boot your box with the > > compressed=XXM in order to set the amount of the compressed cache. My box > > runs fast and happy with 32MiB or 64MiB of compressed cache. My box has > > 256MiB of Ram. > > Ok thanks for the info. I believe the newer cc patch (not in my 2.4.18-ck4) is > better anyway. I'm afraid the cc will be later in the piece assuming I can kill > off the other bug I've created in the merge. I'd prefer to see a cc patch > specifically for 2.4.19 as forward porting it to .19 and then to O(1) (and so > on) are just too many steps. Fair enough. I think that soon we'll see the cc path for the 2.4.19, Rodrigo?
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