From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Lorenzo Allegrucci <l.allegrucci@tiscalinet.it>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: qsbench, interesting results
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:20:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E17wQhL-0005vQ-00@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0210011407480.653-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 19:13, Rik van Riel wrote:
> With one process that needs 150% of RAM as its working set,
> there simply is no way to win.
True, the object is merely to suck as little as possible. Note that
2.4.xx trounces 2.5.xx rather soundly on the test in question.
> > It should run the process as efficiently as possible, given that there
> > isn't any competition.
>
> If there is no competition I agree. However, if the system has
> something else running at the same time as qsbench I think the
> system should make an effort to have _only_ qsbench thrashing
> and not every other process in the system as well.
Did I miss something? I thought the test was just a single instance
of qsbench.
> > Try loading a high res photo in gimp and running any kind of interesting
> > script-fu on it. If it doesn't thrash, boot with half the memory and
> > repeat.
>
> But, should just the gimp thrash, or should every process on the
> machine thrash ?
Gimp should thrash exactly as much as it needs to, to get its job
done. No competition, remember? I realize you're getting ready to
do a sales job for process load control, but you needn't bother, I'm
already sold. We're not talking about that.
--
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-01 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-29 14:15 qsbench, interesting results Lorenzo Allegrucci
2002-09-29 16:26 ` bert hubert
2002-09-29 19:56 ` Lorenzo Allegrucci
2002-09-29 20:00 ` bert hubert
2002-09-29 21:05 ` Lorenzo Allegrucci
2002-09-30 5:57 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-01 14:05 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-01 16:52 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-01 17:03 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-01 17:13 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-01 17:20 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2002-10-01 17:29 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-01 17:38 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-01 18:18 ` Lorenzo Allegrucci
2002-10-01 17:15 ` Larry McVoy
2002-10-01 18:04 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-01 18:20 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-01 18:35 ` Daniel Phillips
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