Thanks Pekka, just want to share with the Kernel Newbies communities what you have wrote: On 5/3/08, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Peter Teoh wrote: > > > a. any tools commonly used for testing memory - slub/slab etc? > > something like fsstress, or fsfuzz for filesystem. this may help me > > to increased the chances of getting more errors. > > > > Not really. What I sometimes use is: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/penberg/testing/slab/ > > Where file-scan.sh does lots of slab allocations for inode and dentry > caches and oom-loop.sh causes memory pressure that shrinks them. > > Peter Teoh wrote: > > > b. how do I do performance comparison/benchmarking on the slub vs > > slab algorithm? > > > > Anything that is slab intensive like networking, for example. For simple > performance testing hackbench is okay: > > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/hackbench.c > > Don't know if Christoph has other tests stashed away somewhere. > > Pekka > -- Regards, Peter Teoh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
