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Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 17:55, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> I'd like to add my 'me too' to those who have requested a re-run of this test, building
> the *identical* kernel tree every time, starting from the same initial conditions.
> Maybe that's what you did, but it's not clear from your post.

He later said he did in fact build the same tree, from the same initial
condition, in single user mode, etc etc ... sounded like good testing
methodology to me.

I later asked for a test of Ingo's sched with ll (to compare to Ingo's
sched with preempt).  In this test, like the others, preempt gives the
best times.

	Robert Love

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