Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:39:43 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test3-mm1
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> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:17:04PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> kpmd_ctor() is unusual; how many runs does this profile represent?
>> Does it represent the first run? Ideally, all your kernel pmd's should
>> be cached. If it's not the first run, then logged slab cache statistics
>> would be interesting to determine whether this is still the case even
>> while effective cacheing is going on or whether slab cache reaping is
>> blowing these things away (i.e. either ineffective cacheing is happening
>> or for some reason cacheing them isn't good enough).

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 03:50:29PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> It's the average of 5 runs, after an initial warmup run which is discarded.


Okay, logging /proc/slabinfo and /proc/meminfo at various points
throughout the run would be helpful here.


-- wli
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