On Thursday, 03 January 2002, at 20:14:42 -0600,
M.H.VanLeeuwen wrote:
> Here is what I've run thus far. I'll add nfs file copy into the mix also...
> System: SMP 466 Celeron 192M RAM, running KDE, xosview, and other minor apps.
>
I applied your little patch "vmscan.patch.2.4.17.c" to a plain 2.4.17
source tree, recompiled, and tried it. Swap usage is _much_ less than in
original 2.4.17: hardware is a Pentium166 with 64 MB RAM and 75 MB
swap, and my workload includes X 4.1.x, icewm, nightly Mozilla, several
rxvt, gkrellm, some MP3 listening via XMMS, xchat, several links web
browsers and a couple of little daemons runnig.
I have not done scientific measures on swap usage, but with your patch
it seems caches don't grow too much, and swap is usually 10-20 MB lower
than using plain 2.4.17. I have also observed in /proc/meminfo that
"Inactive:" seems to be much lower with your patch.
If someone wants more tests/numbers done/reported, just ask.
Hope this helps.
--
Jos鬆Luis Domingo L齔ez
Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Woody (P166 64 MB RAM)
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