Re: [RFC] how do we move the VM forward? (was Re: [RFC] cleanupofuse-once)

[David Lang]

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Also having a box or two for running regression and stress
> testing is a must. I can do a bit here, but unfortunately
> "kernel compiles until it hurts" is probably not the best
> workload to target.
>
> In general most systems and their workloads aren't constantly
> swapping, so we should aim to minimise IO for normal
> workloads. Databases that use the pagecache (eg. postgresql)
> would be a good test. But again we don't want to focus on one
> thing.
>
> That said, of course we don't want to hurt the "really
> thrashing" case - and hopefully improve it if possible.

may I suggest useing OpenOffice as one test, it can eat up horrendous 
amounts of ram in operation (I have one spreadsheet I can send you if 
needed that takes 45min of cpu time on a Athlon64 3200 with 1G of ram just 
to open, at which time it shows openoffice takeing more then 512M of ram)

David Lang

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