Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.47{-mm1} with contest

[Andrew Morton]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
> In the area of things I do do every day, the occasionally posted AIM and
> BYTE benchmarks look as though pipe latency and thruput are down, UNIX
> socket latency and thruput are down, and these are things which will make
> the system feel slower.

Yes, the AIM numbers which have been posted here are quite outrageous.
It's (hopefully) either a few Great Big Bugs or something in 2.5 has
invalidated the measurements.  Or, conceivably, the reduction of the
size of the slabs_free list in the slab allocator.

I shall be taking a look at what's going on in there fairly soon.