From: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
Organization: me
To: Samium Gromoff <deepfire@sic-elvis.zel.ru>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0 performance problems
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:09:46 -0500
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On January 05, 2004 07:33 am, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> At Tue, 30 Dec 2003 08:55:00 -0500,
>
> Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > On December 30, 2003 06:41 am, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> > > Reality sucks.
> > >
> > > People are ignorant enough to turn blind eye to obvious vm regressions.
> > >
> > > No developers run 64M boxens anymore...
> >
> > No one is turning a blind eye.  Notice Linus has reponded to and is
> > interested in this thread.  The vm is not perfect in all cases - in most
> > cases it is faster though...
>
> "in most cases it is faster" is a big lie.
>
> The reality is: on all usual one-way boxes 2.6 goes slower than 2.4 once
> you start paging.

I would argue that in most case you do not page or page very little - know that is 
the case here.

In any case it does point out what part of the system needs to be improved.

Ed
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