Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 23:59:10 -0500 From: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ben@stuyts.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any feedback on my recent kernel 'fixes' Message-ID: <19980204235910.49629@vmunix.com> In-Reply-To: <199802042233.RAA01464@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 05:33:44PM -0500 References: <199802041917.UAA27971@daneel.stuyts.nl> <199802042233.RAA01464@dyson.iquest.net>
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On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 05:33:44PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > Ben Stuyts said: > > On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, "John S. Dyson" wrote: > > > > > Is paging more stable? > > > > > > Thanks for any feedback (either way.) > > > > John, > > > > I've cvsupped this morning, rebuilt the kernel, then made world. No problems > > since then. (But the uptime since then is only 9 hours.) > > > > Usually my make world ups the load average to 5 or 6, so that is a pretty > > good test. Parallel make, updating doc, ports, readmes, etc, all at the same > > time. > > > > Is there a specific torture test you want me to try? > > > The best test that I want everyone to use, is a real world loaded test. I > can only run synthetic tests, or tests of my own typical real world loads. Well, I just cvsup'ed and have been pounding my box with "real world" workstation type use.. I have 32MB of RAM, and I ran several copies of Netscape, a 'make world -j4', some gigantic GIMP filters, the distributed.net DES challenge thingy, the Cafeine Bencmark on the latest jdk1.1.5, a bunch of xterms over PPP, and doing some typing in the Linux Wordperfect 7.0. I kept switching back and forth between virtual windows (with the KDE desktop thing) and surfing on different netscapes, etc, etc... I even got the load up over 15 for over 5 minutes! 8-) It's quite challenging to keep a workstation that busy! After all was said and done I had over 122MB taken up in the swap file. :-) I may have reached my 128MB limit, since at one point GIMP refused to load up any more pictures (I have about 50-60 open).. I have my swap file spread across 2 SCSI (narrow) disks and they were grinding away like crazy. Life was painful, but the system was still remarkably usable and everything seemed to run just peachy! The ppp NAT stuff worked at full speed too, since I was able to surf the net from my girlfriend's PC in the bedroom with no noticable slow down... Great job. The VM system certainly seemed rock solid during my test! -Mark If I have time tomorrow I'll temporarily bring my system disk with -CURRENT on it into my lab and let our NFS server loose on it to see how NFS is performing.. I may not have time to do this though :-( -Mark > > -- > John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, > dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, > jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Win95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -UGU
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