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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 Mon, 2002-01-14 at 06:56, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 03:04:35PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> > user system.  But things like (ack!) dbench 16 show a marked
> > improvement.
> 
> please try again on top of -aa, and I've to specify this : benchmarked
> in a way that can be trusted and compared, so we can make some use of
> this information.  This mean with -18pre2aa2 alone and only -preempt on
> top of -18pre2aa2.

I realize the test isn't directly comparing what we want, so I asked him
for ll+O(1) benchmark, which he gave.  Another set would be to do
preempt and ll alone.

	Robert Love

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