Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 01 Mar 2004 12:45:01 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 |
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Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> One point I would make is that if a workload is only achieving 5% CPU >> anyway, we shouldn't optimise for it. Sure, it's nice to be able to >> get it >> up to 7% but it is much more important to get the 50% CPU workload up to >> 70%. The 5% problem is a fiscal one, not an engineering one ;) >> > > I agree. I'm much more interested in getting light and medium swapping > working better. >
Just so I'm not misunderstood, I must add that I found Nikita's patch to definitely help light and medium swapping kbuild runs. The fact that it *really* helped heavy swapping is a bonus.
But I agree that we need more meaningful tests too. Maybe things like overloading apache or a mail or database server might be interesting.
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