Re: [PATCH 2/3] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the firstclass citizen

From: Wu Fengguang
Date: Wed May 20 2009 - 10:57:08 EST


On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:47:31PM +0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > One scenario that might be useful to test is what happens when some
> > > very large processes, all mapped and executable exceed memory and
> >
> > Good idea. Too bad I may have to install some bloated desktop in order
> > to test this out ;) I guess the pgmajfault+pswpin numbers can serve as
> > negative scores in that case?
>
> I would just generate a large C program with a script and compile
> and run that. The program can be very dumb (e.g. only run
> a gigantic loop), it just needs to be large.
>
> Just don't compile it with optimization, that can be quite slow.
>
> And use multiple functions, otherwise gcc might exceed your memory.


Hehe, an arbitrary C program may not be persuasive..but I do have some
bloated binaries at hand :-)

-rwsr-sr-x 1 root wfg 36M 2009-04-22 17:21 Xorg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 wfg wfg 4 2009-04-22 17:21 X -> Xorg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 wfg wfg 39M 2009-04-22 17:21 Xvfb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 wfg wfg 35M 2009-04-22 17:21 Xnest
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