Re: Performance 2.4.8 is worse than 2.4.x<8

["Steve Kieu" <haiquy@yahoo.com>]

 --- Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de> wrote: > On
Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Steve Kieu wrote:
> 
> > Anyone noticed that?
> 
> Details?

VM is very much improved but it seems to take
resources  to free cached pages.
> Here, disk write throughput seems to want some
> tweaking, and Bonnie

that is what I see

 doing it's rewrite test triggers a very large and
> persistant inactive
> shortage which shouldn't be there (imho).
> 
> page_launder() is definitely working better than
> some of the pre8
> kernels in that it is no longer laundering the
> entire dirty list in
> one huge gulp.  It is also no longer laundering some
> random amount.
> 
> Under FWIW:  I can find no reason for the existance
> of either the
> launder_loop nor doing synchronous IO.  Here, I
> remove both regularly
> and detect nothing but benefit both in responsivness
> and throughput.
> 
>  -Mike
>  

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S.KIEU

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