RE: [PATCH] ia64: Avoid unnecessary TLB flushes when allocating memory

2007-12-14 Thread Luck, Tony
> As you can see, the global purge rates can be pretty respectable > under this kind of load. I chose -j50 to generate enough processes > to stress my own system, you may need more with 4G. Check with > xosview or similar that the buffer cache fills up memory but > is kept relatively small by user-

RE: [PATCH] ia64: Avoid unnecessary TLB flushes when allocating memory

2007-12-14 Thread de Dinechin, Christophe (Integrity VM)
Hi Tony, Thanks for testing this. I just tried the following on a 4-way virtual machine with 2G of memory running on a 4-way rx5670 host with 14G: # One window: Fill the buffer cache with some stuff while true; do find / -type f | xargs cat > /dev/null; done # Another w