Re: Linux-2.4.14-pre8..

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 19:54:07 EST


On 4 Nov 2001 jogi@planetzork.ping.de wrote:
>
> with the complete patch (s.b.) the kernel did kill processes while running
> make -j100. So I tried only the second part of the patch (the SetPage-part)
> and here are the results (this time only the make -j100 part:
>
> 2.4.14-pre8vmscan2: 6:12.06
> 2.4.14-pre8vmscan2: 6:41.43
> 2.4.14-pre8vmscan2: 6:53.22
> 2.4.14-pre8vmscan2: 7:12.03
> 2.4.14-pre8vmscan2: 5:49.82

Good. So at least that one seems to explain (and fix) the "non-repeatable
performance". That's the one that worried me the most in your load. It
still has some variation, but it's a _lot_ better. Thanks,

                Linus

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