From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9795713800E for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:29:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98992E06C8; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:29:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00DA2E0693 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:27:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84BD8209F1 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:27:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:27:38 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=binarywings.net; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; s=mesmtp; bh=frf6FZtUTo7VhvyVYVjYE+UN E4o=; b=RcWa+C+239zxr2U3BGgfcFqFOjkwThqmnw5L+Jtp4YAbnHIUe3XEerob xhNNLTlQCvvPXwIvEmrLxWZa1mc+/EibpOb2ctFDprgqlb7Sd9pSmWEchYvAPkie kzzyAtuyt9pwhqjz7KTYSKsyP5dAoumulPZtCgF0uGOaFS8fc94= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=frf6 FZtUTo7VhvyVYVjYE+UNE4o=; b=o6M7nSjFjIRx61j/SlF37PHhmpfAT5e8FM2+ WNjzPhVcjKG4OQ1POpd8Rlummk+m8NvDn/BCLOj71lJoev0l6K6fmHtDcoRD+8Z1 yfQVJ4BQgT6ae2/rqLJB1N+Ia8E+/nJfPCC5/FHDdUfHFkUdqLu+1d0443cjGDYv f+qw2pg= X-Sasl-enc: bIqERsVJ1l/ec82kAS/VOsx/Q5c2osBm5T/92UNuFvVN 1344612458 Received: from [192.168.2.103] (unknown [188.106.172.55]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 02B168E011D for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:27:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <50252861.1040407@binarywings.net> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:27:29 +0200 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.6esrpre) Gecko/20120804 Thunderbird/10.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernels & swap usage References: <20120807050229.GE2865@ca.inter.net> <2841234.fK1LqJUg2U@localhost> <20120809162346.GF2914@ca.inter.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE4225B4E868F4EBB5D330830" X-Archives-Salt: 30687984-563c-4431-91c9-2b74d49d17f7 X-Archives-Hash: cce8e962c9375305b2aa33d52946d387 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE4225B4E868F4EBB5D330830 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 10.08.2012 08:56, schrieb Jes=C3=BAs J. Guerrero Botella: > It could be anything. Maybe some orphaned process was running in the > background and leaking ram, or something. It's futile to speculate now > about that. >=20 > Also, the -recently added- "pgo" USE flag could have something to do > with that. Not sure, since I didn't bother to investigate it's true > purpose on firefox. >=20 It does two compilations with a headless firefox benchmark in between. Except of doubling the compilation time, there is little difference in the compilation itself. > I really don't think that the kernel has changed in a significant way > in this regard since the latests 2.6.x releases. But I certainly > didn't read *all* the kernel changelogs. >=20 The latest thing of any significance I can think of is the removal of lumpy reclaim in 3.4 which has something to do with reducing memory fragmentation in systems under memory stress. LWN has a subscriber-only article about the change causing performance regressions. From my understanding of the code, I doubt it could cause an improvement in this particular situation. Regards, Florian Philipp --------------enigE4225B4E868F4EBB5D330830 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAlKGUACgkQqs4uOUlOuU8q2QCeMgLKFGnLmDetftt+WzvvoVNn t/0AoIEHLdOF2RUmpkC5P9F8XgRxCxOL =x9i9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE4225B4E868F4EBB5D330830--