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From: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
To: Thomas Molina <tmolina@cablespeed.com>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0 performance problems
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 02:25:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031230012551.GA6226@k3.hellgate.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312291647410.5288@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:07:46 -0500, Thomas Molina wrote:
> Execution time for the test was:
> real	13m33.482s
> user	0m33.540s
> sys	0m16.210s
> 
> 
> Under 2.6 top shows:
> user	nice	system	irq	softirq	iowait	idle
> 0.9	0	5.3	0.9	0.3	92.6	0
> 
> Execution time for the test was:
> real	22m42.397s
> user	0m37.753s
> sys	0m54.043s
> 
> I've done no performance tweaking in either case.  Both tests were done 
> immediately after boot up with only the top program running in each case.  
> I'm not sure what other data would be relevant here.  Any thoughts from 
> the group would be appreciated.

I bet this is just yet another instance of a problem we've been
discussing on lkml and linux-mm for several months now (although Linus
asking for DMA presumably means it's not as well known as I thought
it was).

Basically, when you need to resort to paging for getting work done on
2.6 you're screwed. Your bk export takes a lot more memory than you
have RAM in your machine, right?

Check the archives for this thread:
2.6.0-test9 - poor swap performance on low end machines

Roger

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-30  1:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-29 22:07 2.6.0 performance problems Thomas Molina
2003-12-29 22:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-29 22:58   ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-29 23:04     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-30 14:14       ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30 14:39         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-30 21:14           ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30 21:23             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-31  0:50               ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-31  1:01                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-31  1:34                 ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-31 11:25                   ` bert hubert
2003-12-30 21:35             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-30 23:46             ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-30 18:20         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-29 23:14     ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-30  5:09       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-30 10:27         ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-29 23:25     ` David B. Stevens
2003-12-29 23:05   ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-29 23:43     ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-30  0:17       ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30  1:23         ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-30  1:27         ` Dave Jones
2003-12-30  1:37           ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-12-30  1:40             ` Dave Jones
2003-12-30  1:49             ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30  2:03               ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-03 19:37     ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-30  1:25 ` Roger Luethi [this message]
2003-12-30  1:37   ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30 19:21     ` Andy Isaacson
2003-12-30 19:40       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-30 22:24         ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-31  0:33           ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-31 10:17             ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-31 11:21               ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-31 21:03                 ` Roger Luethi
2004-01-01  1:27                   ` Thomas Molina
2004-01-01 10:23                     ` Roger Luethi
2004-01-01 23:09                 ` Roger Luethi
2004-01-02 10:11                   ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-30  1:27 ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30  2:53   ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30 11:41 Samium Gromoff
2004-01-03 19:54 ` Bill Davidsen
     [not found] ` <200312300855.00741.edt@aei.ca>
2004-01-05 12:33   ` Samium Gromoff
2004-01-05 15:09     ` Ed Tomlinson
2004-01-06  2:23       ` David Lang
2004-01-06 14:44         ` Samium Gromoff

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