Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 18:26:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 18:26:53 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:34577 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 18:26:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3D4C5BBB.EBD49EA3@zip.com.au> Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 15:39:55 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-rc5 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Phillips CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rmap speedup References:

<3D4B692B.46817AD0@zip.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 935 Lines: 26 Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Wait a second guys, the problem is with the script, look at those CPU > numbers: > > > ./daniel.sh 39.78s user 71.72s system 368% cpu 30.260 total > > quad:/home/akpm> time ./daniel.sh > > ./daniel.sh 38.45s user 70.00s system 365% cpu 29.642 total > > They should be 399%!! With my fancy script, the processes themselves are > getting serialized somehow. > > Lets back up and try this again with this pair of scripts, much closer to > the original: > Still 360%. I did have a version which achieved 398%, but it succumbed to the monthly "why is there so much junk in my home dir" disease. But it doesn't matter, does it? We're looking at deltas here. - 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/