On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote:

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> On 07/25/2007 06:46 AM, david@lang.hm wrote:
>
>>  you could make a synthetic test by writing a memory hog that allocates 3/4
>>  of your ram then pauses waiting for input and then randomly accesses the
>>  memory for a while (say randomly accessing 2x # of pages allocated) and
>>  then pausing again before repeating
>
> Something like this?
>
>>  run two of these, alternating which one is running at any one time. time
>>  how long it takes to do the random accesses.
>>
>>  the difference in this time should be a fair example of how much it would
>>  impact the user.
>
> Notenotenote, not sure what you're going to show with it (times are simply as 
> horrendous as I'd expect) but thought I'd try to inject something other than 
> steaming cups of 4-letter beverages.

when the swap readahead is enabled does it make a significant difference 
in the time to do the random access?

if it does that should show a direct benifit of the patch in a simulation 
of a relativly common workflow (startup a memory hog like openoffice then 
try and go back to your prior work)

David Lang

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