Re: some low-memory 2.1.109 compile times

Robert Hamilton (hamilton@kdi.com)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:23:52 -0500

On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 02:25:20PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Could you try to repeat some test decreasing the number of inode-max (as
> suggested by Bill?)?
>
> echo 300 >/proc/sys/fs/inode-max
> ^^^ or less

With mem=8M, freepages = 20 40 60, inode-max= 300
compile-time = 82 minutes
compaired to previous report,
mem=8M, freepages = 20 40 60, inode-max = 4096(default)
compile-time = 92 minutes

The decrease in swapping was quite noticeable.

--
Robert Hamilton


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