> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Pau Aliagas wrote:
>
> I've made a small patch to 2.4.9-ac15 which should make
> page_launder() smoother, make some (very minor) tweaks
> to page aging and updates various comments in vmscan.c
Ok, things improve vastly and the system is usable again. I cannot
"notice" any difference with ac10 in terms of speed.
I attach the top and vmstat outputs while running updatedb (reads all
the files in the filesystems) and starting evolution for the first time
(touches all the mail folders, that's hundreths of files). It starts
smoothly in seconds.
9:30am up 52 min, 5 users, load average: 2,83, 2,35, 1,87
125 processes: 121 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 16,2% user, 7,9% system, 75,8% nice, 0,0% idle
Mem: 127072K av, 123336K used, 3736K free, 2360K shrd, 7988K buff
Swap: 401536K av, 54092K used, 347444K free 33952K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1008 setiatho 20 19 15348 14M 708 R N 76,2 11,4 38:28 setiathome
1045 root 9 0 29740 12M 4076 S 7,3 9,6 9:05 X
2238 pau 9 0 8876 8876 6764 D 4,1 6,9 0:00 evolution-mail
1278 pau 9 0 4276 3776 3444 S 2,5 2,9 0:45 deskguide_apple
2192 pau 9 0 16272 15M 6064 S 1,9 12,8 0:01 evolution
1176 pau 9 0 1784 1456 1352 R 1,5 1,1 0:01 xscreensaver
4 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0,9 0,0 0:02 kswapd
2189 pau 13 0 1096 1096 840 R 0,9 0,8 0:00 top
2258 pau 9 0 6024 6024 4632 S 0,9 4,7 0:00 evolution-pine-
2198 pau 9 0 5616 5616 4360 D 0,7 4,4 0:00 wombat
1127 pau 9 0 3424 3208 2032 S 0,3 2,5 0:03 sawfish
1188 pau 9 0 5428 4972 4172 S 0,3 3,9 0:02 panel
2265 pau 9 0 5372 5372 4216 S 0,3 4,2 0:00 evolution-gnome
944 xfs 9 0 4748 2160 1768 D 0,1 1,6 0:01 xfs
1198 pau 9 0 5232 3992 3472 S 0,1 3,1 0:02 gnome-terminal
1944 root 19 19 716 676 496 R N 0,1 0,5 0:01 updatedb
2093 pau 9 0 524 496 444 S 0,1 0,3 0:00 vmstat
procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
4 1 0 57552 3620 14280 42892 9 18 78 28 124 881 95 3 2
1 11 0 54756 8220 14452 40896 386 115 614 163 244 560 96 4 0
3 0 0 54660 7208 14720 41432 234 0 394 0 180 358 97 3 0
5 0 0 54660 4952 15196 42508 74 0 381 0 162 295 98 2 0
3 2 0 53856 5680 13244 42476 197 2 428 14 205 443 95 5 0
2 4 0 53856 3668 13668 43212 170 0 395 6 180 399 97 3 0
1 3 0 54004 5852 10324 42724 114 0 368 1 176 841 93 6 1
4 0 0 54000 2800 10640 41908 19 0 314 2 151 764 95 5 0
3 0 0 54024 6788 7568 39048 1 0 350 6 172 497 95 5 0
1 2 0 54024 4656 7780 40192 78 0 347 11 163 524 96 4 0
4 0 0 53972 2936 7944 38844 230 0 420 4 193 1370 94 6 0
3 0 0 53972 12944 8420 39136 63 0 285 11 198 1262 96 4 0
4 0 0 53972 11816 8836 39644 19 0 242 14 164 426 97 3 0
4 0 0 53972 10532 9216 40252 31 0 222 17 215 834 96 4 0
3 1 0 53972 8628 9504 40944 42 0 235 4 212 514 96 4 0
2 1 0 53972 4040 9732 41636 0 0 173 2 210 798 95 5 0
4 2 0 54160 3096 7188 40800 32 0 207 32 134 1502 87 13 0
3 0 0 54332 3732 6412 35452 10 0 242 16 178 773 96 4 0
4 0 0 54332 2800 7060 33908 0 0 232 16 204 506 96 4 0
4 0 0 54072 4616 7096 34748 0 572 211 679 207 436 97 3 0
3 2 0 54024 2800 7280 35364 0 12 244 18 216 726 97 3 0
7 0 0 54020 3104 7644 34116 41 0 229 0 175 954 93 7 0
3 1 0 54000 3744 7888 33852 62 0 374 0 193 722 97 3 0
2 4 0 54092 4952 7988 33856 8 0 118 180 170 2934 91 9 0
4 1 0 54036 2992 8024 34312 38 0 102 444 237 1684 92 8 0
2 0 0 54036 3580 8216 35092 0 0 208 0 173 356 97 3 0
3 0 0 55016 3820 8444 34912 3 67 293 136 165 279 90 2 8
3 0 0 55016 2800 8724 34820 0 0 202 15 177 385 98 2 0
4 0 0 55016 2948 9008 34704 0 0 258 14 175 372 98 2 0
Pau
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