Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the highend)

[Andrew Morton]

Peter Zaitsev <peter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sorry if I was unclear.  These are suffexes from RH AS 3.0 kernel
>  namings.  "SMP" corresponds to normal SMP kernel they have,  "hugemem"
>  is kernel with 4G/4G split.
> 
>  > 
>  > > For CPU bound load (10 Warehouses) I got 7000TPM instead of 4500TPM,
>  > > which is over 35% slowdown.
>  > 
>  > Well no, it is a 56% speedup.   Please clarify.  Lots.
> 
>  Huh. The numbers shall be other way around of course :)   "smp" kernel
>  had better performance of some 7000TPM, compared to  4500TPM with
>  HugeMem kernel. 

That's a larger difference than I expected.  But then, everyone has been
mysteriously quiet with the 4g/4g benchmarking.

A kernel profile would be interesting.  As would an optimisation effort,
which, as far as I know, has never been undertaken.

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