From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265095AbTLMPyL (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:54:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265143AbTLMPyL (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:54:11 -0500 Received: from cmailg1.svr.pol.co.uk ([195.92.195.171]:36365 "EHLO cmailg1.svr.pol.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265095AbTLMPyI (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:54:08 -0500 From: Chris Vine To: Con Kolivas , William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9 - poor swap performance on low end machines Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:08:05 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Martin J. Bligh" References: <20031208135225.GT19856@holomorphy.com> <200312090123.31895.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200312090123.31895.kernel@kolivas.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312131408.05558.chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 08 December 2003 2:23 pm, Con Kolivas wrote: > [snip original discussion thrashing swap on 2.6test with 32mb ram] > > Chris > > By an unusual coincidence I was looking into the patches that were supposed > to speed up application startup and noticed this one was merged. A brief > discussion with wli suggests this could cause thrashing problems on low > memory boxes so can you try this patch? Applies to test11. Con, I have applied the patch, and performance is nearly indistinguishable from that with the kernel without it. Chris.