From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262114AbUGIBT0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:19:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262356AbUGIBT0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:19:26 -0400 Received: from dsl-217-155-222-126.zen.co.uk ([217.155.222.126]:13536 "EHLO mail.recruit2recruit.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262114AbUGIBTY (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:19:24 -0400 Message-ID: <33035.82.69.73.113.1089335947.squirrel@82.69.73.113> In-Reply-To: <40EDE956.80705@kolivas.org> References: <40EC13C5.2000101@kolivas.org> <40EC1930.7010805@comcast.net> <40EC1B0A.8090802@kolivas.org> <20040707213822.2682790b.akpm@osdl.org> <20040708001027.7fed0bc4.akpm@osdl.org> <20040708010842.2064a706.akpm@osdl.org> <40ED7534.4010409@kolivas.org> <20040708094406.2b0293ea.akpm@osdl.org> <40EDE956.80705@kolivas.org> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 02:19:07 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH] Autotune swappiness From: "Kerin Millar" To: "Con Kolivas" Cc: "Andrew Morton" , ck@vds.kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I need someone with more varied hardware to test it for me. I can > recreate equivalent results on my current machine which has similar > hardware, but I think results showing improvement on different machines > and different loads is what you're looking for... and since I'm > currently quite low on hardware I can only offer results from this one > (and my wife is hating it being offline o_0) > > Anyone willing to offer to do some tests? Yes - I would. If you can define a digestible framework for testing then I would be more than happy to work through it - digestible for mere mortals, that is ;). I have three machines on which I currently have the opportunity to conduct such tests: * PIII (733MHz), 384Mb RAM, VIA Apollo MVP3 chipset * Compaq Presario, P4 2GHz, 256Mb RAM, Brookdale-G chipset * Compaq Proliant ML370 G3 server, P4 Xeon 3.06GHz (HT), 1Gb RAM All machines have similar software characteristics - identical toolchain, same versions of core GNU tools and so forth. By all means, let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Regards, --Kerin Francis Millar