Here are the tests i`ve promised, and sorry for the delays.
The test machine was a pIII-600/192M RAM/10krpm SCSI drive.
There was three different loads.
the test app whose run time was measured was:
time find / -xdev | \
bzip2 --compress | bzip2 --decompress | \
bzip2 --compress | bzip2 --decompress | \
bzip2 --compress | bzip2 --decompress | \
cat > /dev/null
the loads were:
Load 1:
boot options: mem=32M init=/bin/bash
swapon -a
run the test
Load 2:
boot options: mem=48M init=/bin/bash
swapon -a
run the test
Load 3:
boot options: mem=48M
usual X session, with lots of terminals, emacs and stuff
the test was run from one of the x terminal emulators
the kernels were:
2.4.20-pre9, 2.6.2 -- no comments
2.6.2-rc3-mm1 -- that one didn`t include the Namesys VM patches
2.6.2--mm1 -- that one _did_ include the Namesys VM patches
results:
2.4.20-pre9 2.6.2 2.6.2-mm1 2.6.2-rc3-mm1
Load 1
run1 6.27 9.14 9.42 10.52
Load 2
run1 3.29 4.42 3.40 3.45
run2 3.28 4.37 3.39 3.45
Load 3
run1 4.42 8.39 18.26
short summary:
2.4 is faster.