Re: Page Faults slower in 2.6.25-rc9 than 2.6.23

From: Ross Biro
Date: Wed Apr 30 2008 - 09:16:41 EST


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Ross Biro <rossb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Aah.. Yes... but I am definitely interested in figuring out the root cause for
> > the regression.
>
> I can't reproduce the 2.6.23 results. I'm going to run the benchmarks
> a few more times, but I'm suspecting something changed with the
> hardware.

The 2.6.23 results have been consistant with 2.6.24 results and
lmbench has crashed my test machine at least once. I'm guessing some
sort of memory error causing a lot of ECC and slowing things down.

Ross
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