On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 04:35:03PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > If System CPU time really does go down as this converges then that > should be obvious from monitoring vmstat over time for a test. Early on > - high usage with that dropping as it converges. If that doesn't happen > then the tasks are not converging, the phases change constantly or > something unexpected happened that needs to be identified. Yes, all measurable kernel cost should be in the memory copies (migration and khugepaged, the latter is going to be optimized away). The migrations must stop after the workload converges. Either migrations are used to reach convergence or they shouldn't happen in the first place (not in any measurable amount). > Ok. Are they separate STREAM instances or threads running on the same > arrays? My understanding is separate instances. I think it's a single threaded benchmark and you run many copies. It was modified to run for 5min (otherwise upstream has not enough time to get it wrong, as result of background scheduling jitters). Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>