On Sat, 19 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>
> > That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are
> > trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also
> > why magic numbers tend to suck in the VM.)
>
> Magic numbers might be sucking some performance right now ;-)
... so you replace them with some others ... ;)
> Three back to back make -j 30 runs for three different kernels.
> Swap cache numbers are taken immediately after last completion.
The performance increase is nice, though. Do you see similar
changes in different kinds of workloads ?
> (yes, the last hunk looks out of place wrt my text.
It also looks kind of bogus and geared completely towards this
particular workload ;)
regards,
Rik
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