Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:31:30 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > >>Linus Torvalds wrote on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:00 PM >> >>>The fact that it seems to fluctuate pretty wildly makes me wonder >>>how stable the numbers are. >> >>I can't resist myself from bragging. The high point in the fluctuation >>might be because someone is working hard trying to make 2.6 kernel run >>faster. Hint hint hint ..... ;-) > > > Heh. How do you explain the low-point? If there's somebody out there > working hard on making it run slower, I want to whack the guy ;) >
If it is doing a lot of mapping/unmapping (or fork/exit), then that might explain why 2.6.11 is worse.
Fortunately there are more patches to improve this on the way.
Kernel profiles would be useful if possible.
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