Re: Cache thrashing?

Arthur (arthur@sevenkings.net)
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 14:54:36 -0400

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>The XMMS processes run less than 5.0 percent some of the time, but they
>still spike much higher, up to 15 percent or so. When they spike higher,
>they stay high for a while, then come back down after a minute or so.
>
>Running UP, they never spike up like that.

Hmmm.

After retesting this, I see that I can make XMMS spike on a UP kernel
too. If I saturate my ethernet with a large FTP transfer, XMMS will
jump from about 1% to 25% CPU. As soon as the FTP is finished, XMMS
goes back down to 1% or less.

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