Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261188AbUCAJ1n (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 04:27:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261216AbUCAJ1n (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 04:27:43 -0500 Received: from mail-07.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.39]:36563 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261188AbUCAJ1i (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 04:27:38 -0500 Message-ID: <40430204.6040901@cyberone.com.au> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 20:27:32 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Fedyk CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: MM VM patches was: 2.6.3-mm4 References: <20040225185536.57b56716.akpm@osdl.org> <4042F38B.8020307@matchmail.com> <4042F7E6.1050904@cyberone.com.au> <4042FCBC.7000809@matchmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4042FCBC.7000809@matchmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1635 Lines: 63 Mike Fedyk wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > >> >> >> There are a few things backed out now in 2.6.4-rc1-mm1, and quite a >> few other changes. I hope we can trouble you to test 2.6.4-rc1-mm1? > > > Yes, I saw that, but since I wasn't using the new code, I chose to > keep it in the "-mm4" thread. :-D > > I'll backport it to 2.6.3 if it doesn't patch with "-F3"... > Actually, see my other post. It is possible you'll have the same problem. >> Tell me, do you have highmem enabled on this system? If so, swapping > > > Yes, to get that extra 128MB ram. :) > Yeah thats fine. I think this would be the right thing to do, especially for a file server. It is something that should work. >> might be explained by the batching patch. With it, a small highmem >> zone could possibly place quite a lot more pressure on a large >> ZONE_NORMAL. >> >> 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 sould do much better here. > > > OK, I'll give that one a shot Monday or Tuesday night. > > So, I'll merge up 2.6.3 + "vm of rc1-mm1" and tell you guys what I see. > I'm not so hopeful for you anymore :P > Are the graphs helpful at all? > My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing! They have a lot of good info but I'm a bit hard pressed working out what kernel is running where, and it's a bit hard working out all the shades of blue on my crappy little monitor. But if they were easier to read I reckon they'd be useful ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/