Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759726Ab2HJSPP (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:15:15 -0400 Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:37696 "EHLO e7.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758857Ab2HJSPL (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:15:11 -0400 Message-ID: <50254F69.2000409@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:14:01 -0500 From: Seth Jennings User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Magenheimer CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , Nitin Gupta , Minchan Kim , Konrad Wilk , Robert Jennings , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Kurt Hackel Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] promote zcache from staging References: <1343413117-1989-1-git-send-email-sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <5021795A.5000509@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <5024067F.3010602@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <2e9ccb4f-1339-4c26-88dd-ea294b022127@default> In-Reply-To: <2e9ccb4f-1339-4c26-88dd-ea294b022127@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12081018-5806-0000-0000-0000183EFF3F Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1110 Lines: 36 On 08/09/2012 03:20 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote > I also wonder if you have anything else unusual in your > test setup, such as a fast swap disk (mine is a partition > on the same rotating disk as source and target of the kernel build, > the default install for a RHEL6 system)? I'm using a normal SATA HDD with two partitions, one for swap and the other an ext3 filesystem with the kernel source. > Or have you disabled cleancache? Yes, I _did_ disable cleancache. I could see where having cleancache enabled could explain the difference in results. > Or have you changed any sysfs parameters or > other kernel files? No. > And are you using 512M of physical memory or relying on > kernel boot parameters to reduce visible memory Limited with mem=512M boot parameter. > ... and > if the latter have you confirmed with /proc/meminfo? Yes, confirmed. Seth -- 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/