From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com (penguin.e-mind.com [195.223.140.120]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA23552 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 18:33:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 00:31:24 +0100 (CET) From: Andrea Arcangeli Reply-To: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: arca-vm-8 [Re: [patch] arca-vm-6, killed kswapd [Re: [patch] new-vm , improvement , [Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary]]] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: steve@netplus.net, brent verner , "Garst R. Reese" , Kalle Andersson , Zlatko Calusic , Ben McCann Cc: bredelin@ucsd.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org, Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , "Stephen C. Tweedie" List-ID: On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I've put out arca-vm-9. Woops in both arca-vm-8 and arca-vm-9 there was a very stupid bug in my changes of the memory_trashing heuristic (done at too late time..). Basically when a process was masked to be a memory_trasher, it had no ways to return a not marked process................ I didn' t noticed the bug because I use swap only when I do my benchmarks (when there is not swapping in progress the slowdown due some shrink_mmap() can't be seen with eyes...) and when I run my benchmarks I always start before the memory trasher proggy... Thanks to Benjamin who showed me the bugs some seconds ago ;) I've put out a new arca-vm-10 with at least this bug fixed. ftp://e-mind.com/pub/linux/kernel-patches/2.2.0-pre4-arca-VM-10 Excuse me... BTW, I have reports that arca-vm-6/7 are faster than arca-vm-8/9 (arca-vm-7 is reported the fastest even more than arca-vm-3). Maybe it's been due this bug that the latest are slower, or maybe the whole new changes at the first memory_trashing code (the one in 2.2.0-pre4) are hurting... (even if here them seems to helps, with them the trashing process remains marked all the time and not only during low mem peak; and not trashing process never get marked as trashing) And again thanks to Steve, Zlatko, Benjamin, Ben, Garst, MikeG, Kalle, Brent and all other testers for their good reports! Andrea Arcangeli -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org