Le mer, déc 05, 2001, à 09:46:32 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli a écrit:

> > Now, as soon as the system gets some use (inetd kicks exim in, one ssh
> > attempt, etc.), most processes go freeze themselves into 
> >   <shrink_caches +57/80>
> 
> I never reproduced anything wrong here, testing on highmem and non
> highmem. Just in case can you also reproduce with 2.4.17pre1aa1?


Here are the results; basically, I've pitted 2.4.17-pre2 against
2.4.17-pre2+pre1aa1. The short story is, pre1aa1 works great for the
workload I've thrown at it (Debian 'woody'; long netfilter rules;
console-only runlevel2; exim; apache; apt-get update && apt-get -uy
dist-upgrade; ssh; one updatedb ; top). pre2 doesn't
even make it to runlevel2 (I've made two tests with the "andrea" kernel, one
in single mode for comparison with "marcelo" kernel, one in normal
multi-user mode).

Incidentally, I perceive a much better performance with 2.4.17-pre2+pre1aa1
than with 2.4.13-ac8 (Rik's VM).

	-- Cyrille

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