Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-30 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, May 29 2001, Fabio Riccardi wrote: > yes I get a performance improvement of about 5% Nice > could you port your patches to the 2.4.5-ac4 kernel? I'd love to see if the ac > improvements and yours add to each other. Sure: *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.5-ac4/

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-30 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, May 29 2001, Fabio Riccardi wrote: yes I get a performance improvement of about 5% Nice could you port your patches to the 2.4.5-ac4 kernel? I'd love to see if the ac improvements and yours add to each other. Sure: *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.5-ac4/ --

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-29 Thread Fabio Riccardi
yes I get a performance improvement of about 5% could you port your patches to the 2.4.5-ac4 kernel? I'd love to see if the ac improvements and yours add to each other. Thanks, - Fabio Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, May 29 2001, Fabio Riccardi wrote: > > "Leeuw van der, Tim" wrote: > > > > >

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-29 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, May 29 2001, Fabio Riccardi wrote: > "Leeuw van der, Tim" wrote: > > > But the claim was that 2.4.5-ac2 is faster than 2.4.5 plain, so which > > changes are in 2.4.5-ac2 that would make it faster than 2.4.5 plain? Also, I > > don't know if 2.4.5-ac1 is as fast as 2.4.5-ac2 for Fabio. If

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-29 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, May 29 2001, Fabio Riccardi wrote: Leeuw van der, Tim wrote: But the claim was that 2.4.5-ac2 is faster than 2.4.5 plain, so which changes are in 2.4.5-ac2 that would make it faster than 2.4.5 plain? Also, I don't know if 2.4.5-ac1 is as fast as 2.4.5-ac2 for Fabio. If not, then

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-29 Thread Fabio Riccardi
yes I get a performance improvement of about 5% could you port your patches to the 2.4.5-ac4 kernel? I'd love to see if the ac improvements and yours add to each other. Thanks, - Fabio Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, May 29 2001, Fabio Riccardi wrote: Leeuw van der, Tim wrote: But the

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to confirm this is what happening in your case: Can you please try > 2.4.4-ac5 and see if the _swap usage_ is still as badly? 2.4.4-ac5 seams to use the swap about as much as 2.4.4, which is less than 2.4.5-ac2. In my simple "freesly boot

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-28 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 29 May 2001, André Dahlqvist wrote: > André Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I agree. Kernels after 2.4.4 uses a *lot* more swap for me, which I guess > > might be part of the reason for the slowdown. > > Following up on myself, here are some numbers: > > Freshly booted

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
André Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree. Kernels after 2.4.4 uses a *lot* more swap for me, which I guess > might be part of the reason for the slowdown. Following up on myself, here are some numbers: Freshly booted 2.4.4 with X and Mozilla running, 'free' outputs this:

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It did not fixed any interactivity problem. I agree. Kernels after 2.4.4 uses a *lot* more swap for me, which I guess might be part of the reason for the slowdown. -- André Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-28 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Leeuw van der, Tim wrote: > The VM in 2.4.5 might be largely 'fixed' and I know that the VM changes in > -ac were considered to be but still broken, however for me they worked > better than what is in 2.4.5. The VM changes in 2.4.5 fixed a very serious performance problem.

FW: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-28 Thread Desjardins, Kristian
-Original Message- From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2 > But the claim was that 2.4.5-ac2 is faster than 2.4.5 plain, so which > changes are in 2.4.5-ac2 that woul

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-28 Thread Alan Cox
> But the claim was that 2.4.5-ac2 is faster than 2.4.5 plain, so which > changes are in 2.4.5-ac2 that would make it faster than 2.4.5 plain? Also, I > don't know if 2.4.5-ac1 is as fast as 2.4.5-ac2 for Fabio. If not, then it's > a change in the 2.4.5-ac2 changelog. If it is as fast, it is one

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-28 Thread Leeuw van der, Tim
Alan Cox wrote: > > Performance is back to that of 2.4.2-ac26, and stability is a lot > better. Under > > heavy FS pressure 2.4.5-ac2 is about 5-10% faster than vanilla 2.4.5, > the aa1,2 > > kernels have the same performance of vanilla 2.4.5. > > > > Which one of your changes affected

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-28 Thread Leeuw van der, Tim
Alan Cox wrote: Performance is back to that of 2.4.2-ac26, and stability is a lot better. Under heavy FS pressure 2.4.5-ac2 is about 5-10% faster than vanilla 2.4.5, the aa1,2 kernels have the same performance of vanilla 2.4.5. Which one of your changes affected performance so

FW: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-28 Thread Desjardins, Kristian
-Original Message- From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2 But the claim was that 2.4.5-ac2 is faster than 2.4.5 plain, so which changes are in 2.4.5-ac2 that would make

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-28 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Leeuw van der, Tim wrote: The VM in 2.4.5 might be largely 'fixed' and I know that the VM changes in -ac were considered to be but still broken, however for me they worked better than what is in 2.4.5. The VM changes in 2.4.5 fixed a very serious performance problem.

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It did not fixed any interactivity problem. I agree. Kernels after 2.4.4 uses a *lot* more swap for me, which I guess might be part of the reason for the slowdown. -- André Dahlqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-28 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 29 May 2001, André Dahlqvist wrote: André Dahlqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree. Kernels after 2.4.4 uses a *lot* more swap for me, which I guess might be part of the reason for the slowdown. Following up on myself, here are some numbers: Freshly booted 2.4.4 with X

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to confirm this is what happening in your case: Can you please try 2.4.4-ac5 and see if the _swap usage_ is still as badly? 2.4.4-ac5 seams to use the swap about as much as 2.4.4, which is less than 2.4.5-ac2. In my simple freesly boot kernel,

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-27 Thread Tom Vier
actually, it happens on ext2, also. it was fun trying to switch back to 2.2 after converting raid devs for 2.4 and trashing my emergency boot disk. i was finally able to restore from tape by mounting -o sync. there was still some minor corruption caught by fsck, though. the new sym53c875 driver

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-27 Thread Fabio Riccardi
Ok, things are fast again now! :)) Performance is back to that of 2.4.2-ac26, and stability is a lot better. Under heavy FS pressure 2.4.5-ac2 is about 5-10% faster than vanilla 2.4.5, the aa1,2 kernels have the same performance of vanilla 2.4.5. Which one of your changes affected performance

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-27 Thread Tom Vier
i haven't had any reiserfs crashes on my alpha, but restoring a backup of a debian installation to a reiserfs partition doesn't quite work. untarring a linux kernel tarball to the fs works, does work though. i get these kernel messages: May 27 23:28:47 zero kernel: is_leaf: free space seems

Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-27 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org In terms of going through the code audit almost all the sound drivers still need fixing to lock against format changes during a

Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-27 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org In terms of going through the code audit almost all the sound drivers still need fixing to lock against format changes during a

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-27 Thread Tom Vier
i haven't had any reiserfs crashes on my alpha, but restoring a backup of a debian installation to a reiserfs partition doesn't quite work. untarring a linux kernel tarball to the fs works, does work though. i get these kernel messages: May 27 23:28:47 zero kernel: is_leaf: free space seems

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-27 Thread Fabio Riccardi
Ok, things are fast again now! :)) Performance is back to that of 2.4.2-ac26, and stability is a lot better. Under heavy FS pressure 2.4.5-ac2 is about 5-10% faster than vanilla 2.4.5, the aa1,2 kernels have the same performance of vanilla 2.4.5. Which one of your changes affected performance

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

2001-05-27 Thread Tom Vier
actually, it happens on ext2, also. it was fun trying to switch back to 2.2 after converting raid devs for 2.4 and trashing my emergency boot disk. i was finally able to restore from tape by mounting -o sync. there was still some minor corruption caught by fsck, though. the new sym53c875 driver