From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:38:42 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take three In-Reply-To: <3D2C9900.EF65CE2E@zip.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Dave McCracken , Linux Memory Management List-ID: On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > How do the BSD and proprietary kernel developers evaluate > their VMs? Proper statistics inside their VM, combined with some basic workload testing. Most importantly, they don't seem to hang themselves on benchmarks. Benchmarks can be won by finetuning whatever you have but measuring a new basis (still without tuning) by benchmarking it just doesn't work. regards, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/