Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 May 2005 20:16:06 +0200 | From | Herbert Poetzl <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] how do we move the VM forward? (was Re: [RFC] cleanup ofuse-once) |
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On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:51:43PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > >Also having a box or two for running regression and stress > >testing is a must. I can do a bit here, but unfortunately > >"kernel compiles until it hurts" is probably not the best > >workload to target.
if there are some tests or output (kernel logs, etc) or proc info or vmstat or whatever, which doesn't take 100% cpu time, I'm able and willing to test it on different workloads (including compiling the kernel until it hurts ;)
> >In general most systems and their workloads aren't constantly > >swapping, so we should aim to minimise IO for normal > >workloads. Databases that use the pagecache (eg. postgresql) > >would be a good test. But again we don't want to focus on one > >thing. > > > >That said, of course we don't want to hurt the "really > >thrashing" case - and hopefully improve it if possible. > > may I suggest useing OpenOffice as one test, it can eat up horrendous > amounts of ram in operation (I have one spreadsheet I can send you if > needed that takes 45min of cpu time on a Athlon64 3200 with 1G of ram just > to open, at which time it shows openoffice takeing more then 512M of ram)
cool, looks like they are taking the MS compatibility really serious nowadays ...
best, Herbert
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