On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 02:25:22PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On November 23, 2001 02:04 pm, Momchil Velikov wrote: > > >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net> writes: > > Daniel> Our vm shall: > > > > [...] > > > > - respect application hints (madvice, fadvice) > > - respond smoothly to large and sudden changes in load, and in type of > load, without consuming large amounts of cpu or doing extra disk IO. - behave consistently over time. This means no gradual slowdown of benchmarks run for hours etc. that some people are reported to see in some kernel versions (and I /think/ I have seen myself). I also particularly care about performance with sparse file-backed mmaps that are large ... regards john -- "By the way, it's not binaries, it's Perl code. Sometimes they look confusingly similar." - Pavel Roskin -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
