On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:18:22 +0000, Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would agree except as said elsewhere, it's a chicken and egg problem. > We don't have a real world test because fadvise is not useful in its > current iteration. I'm hoping that there will be a test comparing > > rsync on vanilla kernel > rsync on patched kernel > rsync+patch on vanilla kernel > rsync+patch on patched kernel > > Are the results of such a test likely to happen? > Yes, absolutely, although I'm sorry it has taken so long. Between thanksgiving and the impending end of the semester things have been a bit hectic. Nevertheless, I just finished putting together a script to record some metics from /proc/vmstat and /proc/[pid]/statm, so at this point I'm ready to finally take some data. Any suggestions for particular patterns to look for in the numbers or other metrics to record are welcome. Cheers, - Ben -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>