Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
> Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
>
> > I'd be interested in how much this patch helps interactive
> > performance, if at all... (I really need to setup X on my
> > test box;))
>
> I can only say: not much. It initially helped a bit but as soon as
> I'm starting compiling (first glibc, then mozilla) all the memory is
> again wasted^h^h^h^h^h^hspent on caches. The following is during the
> mozilla compilation:
>
>
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 523837440 517189632 6647808 0 21442560 441991168
> Swap: 402096128 126083072 276013056
> MemTotal: 511560 kB
> MemFree: 6492 kB
> MemShared: 0 kB
> Buffers: 20940 kB
> Cached: 431632 kB
> HighTotal: 0 kB
> HighFree: 0 kB
> LowTotal: 511560 kB
> LowFree: 6492 kB
> SwapTotal: 392672 kB
> SwapFree: 269544 kB
>
>
> At the same time I'm writing in XEmacs and have often no feedback on
> keypresses for some seconds. The cache buffers still take over the
> whole VM.
>
same here...
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