Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

From: Mike Galbraith (mikeg@wen-online.de)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2001 - 01:41:55 EST


On 20 Mar 2001, Kevin Buhr wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> >
> > Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
> >
> > I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
> > ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
>
> I frequently build Mozilla from scratch on my (aging) dual Celeron
> machine. That's about 65 megs of actual C++ source, and it takes
> about an hour of real time to compile. I see times for the whole
> build like this:
>
> real 60m4.574s
> user 101m18.260s <-- impossible no?
> sys 3m23.520s

Why do numbers like this show up? I noticed some of this after having
enabled SMP on my UP box.

        -Mike

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