From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264563AbTLQVmO (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:42:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264565AbTLQVmO (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:42:14 -0500 Received: from mail2.bluewin.ch ([195.186.4.73]:45783 "EHLO mail2.bluewin.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264563AbTLQVmL (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:42:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:41:08 +0100 From: Roger Luethi To: Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , wli@holomorphy.com, kernel@kolivas.org, chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mbligh@aracnet.com Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9 - poor swap performance on low end machines Message-ID: <20031217214107.GA3650@k3.hellgate.ch> Mail-Followup-To: Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , wli@holomorphy.com, kernel@kolivas.org, chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mbligh@aracnet.com References: <20031216112307.GA5041@k3.hellgate.ch> <20031217194950.GA9375@k3.hellgate.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031217194950.GA9375@k3.hellgate.ch> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.0-test11 on i686 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 92 F4 DC 20 57 46 7B 95 24 4E 9E E7 5A 54 DC 1B X-GPG: 1024/80E744BD wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:49:51 +0100, Roger Luethi wrote: > right now just to make sure. It's going to take a couple of hours, > I'll follow up with results. For efax, a benchmark run with mem=32M, the difference in run time between values 256 and 1024 for /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes is noise (< 1%). Roger