From: Mikolaj Krzewicki <mkrzewicki@lycos•nl>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Cc: benh@kernel•crashing.org
Subject: Re: benh performance problem
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:50:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4022BAB8.2060707@lycos.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1075847083.17327.31.camel@gaston>
> On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 04:58, Mikolaj Krzewicki wrote:
>
>>> hi all,
>>> starting 2.6.0-test9-benh3 i noticed an increased system overhead on my
>>> ibook 500. Each process eats much more cpu time than in 2.4 or even
>>> vanilla 2.6.
>>> gkrellm takes 1% instead of 0.1, xmms 5% instead of ~1% and so on.
>>> I benchmarked the lot with octave and it indeed runs ~10% slower on the
>>> benh kernels.
>>> I would use vanilla 2.6.1 but it won't sleep/wake correctly (at all).
>>> All pre-2.6.0-test9-benh3 kernels worked fast but would't sleep/wake either.
>>> I tried to isolate the patch responsible but failed.
>>> Has anybody come across similar behaviour?
>>> greetings, M
>
>
> I switched to HZ=1000, the userland procps utilities (like ps and top)
> tend to not properly deal with that, at least earlier versions, afaik.
>
> I suspect it's just display crap.
>
> Alos, you can find a more recent kernel than that My bk tree is
> currently at 2.6.2-rc3-ben1
>
> Ben.
i tested 2.6.1-benh1 now with HZ=100
the benchmark i used shows a speedup back to the values i'm used to.
The benchmark itself is an octave script the execution time of which i
tested with different kernels under similar circumstances, so here are
the details:
2.6.1-benh1, HZ=1000: timing=36.5s
2.6.1-benh1, HZ=100 : timing=32s
this is with X running and a lot more processes(not running).
the weird thing is it executes slightly faster (on average) with
pbbuttonsd off.
The machine is g3 500 ibook, the octave script is:
tic;
a = abs(randn(1500, 1500)/10);
b = a';
c= a*b;
a = reshape(b, 750, 3000);
b = a';
timing=toc;
so lots of system calls and cache flushing is in order.
Mikolaj.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-03 17:58 benh performance problem Mikolaj Krzewicki
2004-02-03 22:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-05 21:50 ` Mikolaj Krzewicki [this message]
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2004-02-06 5:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-06 15:25 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-02-07 21:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-07 9:17 ` Gabriel Paubert
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