Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the highend)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 22:35:08 EST


Peter Zaitsev <peter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 17:43, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Definately not what we expected, but a nice surprise nontheless.
> >
> > this is the first time I hear something like this. Maybe you mean the
> > 4:4 was actually using more ram for the SGA? Just curious.
>
> I actually recently Did MySQL benchmarks using DBT2 MySQL port.
>
> The test box was 4Way Xeon w HT, 4Gb RAM, 8 SATA Disks in RAID10.
>
> I used RH AS 3.0 for tests (2.4.21-9.ELxxx)
>
> For Disk Bound workloads (200 Warehouse) I got 1250TPM for "hugemem" vs
> 1450TPM for "smp" kernel, which is some 14% slowdown.

Please define these terms. What is the difference between "hugemem" and
"smp"?

> For CPU bound load (10 Warehouses) I got 7000TPM instead of 4500TPM,
> which is over 35% slowdown.

Well no, it is a 56% speedup. Please clarify. Lots.

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