Trever Adams wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > > I believe this is a tuning issue, so > > > i do not complain :) > > > > Indeed. Now that the testing base for the VM patch > > has increased so much, there are a few as-of-yet > > untested workloads popping up that don't perform > > very well. > > > > I'm gathering details about those workloads and > > trying to fix them as best as possible. > > > > regards, > > > > Rik > > -- > > "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" > > -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 > > Actually, I have been having problems with the latest Netscapes (provided by > RedHat) since the early 2.4.0test series. It seems it goes into memory eating > mode every so often. Closing netscape and restarting it makes things fine. I > don't know if it is the kernel's fault or netscape's, but it is only netscape > that I have such problems with. I almost wonder if it is a networking change > that causes it. I remember such a bug in the late 2.1.x series. > > Trever > -- > The finest family and value oriented products are at http://www.daysofyore.com/ > Tired of high costs and games with domain names? http://domains.daysofyore.com/ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ i must say, Netscape 4.75 has been great for me ... especially with this 2.4.0-test8-vm3 kernel. No swap after opening and closing netscape numerous times and browsing flash sites etc. the first time i've been in swap was 13 hours after boot ...and that was after extensive hdd and ram tests along with compiling freeamp and loading other mem hogging programs such as gtk xemacs21 and Q2 . I'm very happy with this VM patch ...it seems quite stable. although i wont know if it's any better than the old one until 2-3 days uptime ...which is when the old kernel used to hit 100MB of swap and X would crash ... so .. we shall see soon. BTW.. the test# kernels are quite stable as i've had test5 up for well over 30 days at a time between power outages caused by lightning. I have Bonnie++ scores that are kind of discouraging when it comes to file creations and deletion. here are the scores. Version 1.00c ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine MB K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP psuedomode 240 4504 94 14034 20 4665 9 4796 97 14921 17 31.0 0 ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create-------- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 30 104 97 +++++ +++ 1526 99 104 98 +++++ +++ 521 89 psuedomode,240,4504,94,14034,20,4665,9,4796,97,14921,17,31.0,0,30,104,97,+++++,+++,1526,99,104,98,+++++,+++,521,89 this is on a pii 300 with 128MB sdram on a hdd with a 6GB ext2fs partition on a 7200 rpm UDMA 2 maxtor eide drive. ..netscape was not loaded but 9 Eterms, X, gaim, xamixer, sawmill, apache, proftpd, and various other little apps were loaded.
