On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:58 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Measurements made immediately after booting, when there's little or no > memory pressure, won't tell you anything about this aspect of prelink. > You have to look at /proc/XXXXXX/smaps in a running system that IS > under memory pressure, to notice that much more of the memory of the > inactive processes has been released from DRAM, than in a > non-prelinked system under memory pressure.
Good point. As a testing method, so should we ... ? - boot to Sugar - open browse - login to gmail or a similarly heavy modern webapp - log output of ps_mem.py (which uses smaps) Or is there an equivalent of ps_mem.py that will give us better interesting numbers to compare? Should we ... ? - boot to Sugar - open activities until we OOM - logging how far we get cheers, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
