Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.44-mm6 contest results

[Giuliano Pochini]

On 29-Oct-2002 Andrew Morton wrote:
> Con Kolivas wrote:
>> 2.5.44-mm6 [3]          226.9   33      50      2       3.18
>>
>> Mem load has dropped off again
>
> Well that's one interpretation.  The other is "goody, that pesky
> kernel compile isn't slowing down my important memory-intensive
> whateveritis so much".  It's a tradeoff.

This test should display the speed of the memory hog, kernel
compile and also how much disk i/o occurred to be really
meaningful. But IMO disk i/o is the one that slows things
down, so we should try to keep it as low as possible (and this
test show nothing about it).

Bye.