On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Roger Larsson wrote:

I have made some test runs - results are close to proper 2.4.10-pre9
actually slightly better for all but two of mine testcases.
diff of two files bigger than RAM got half throughput, why???
mmap002 (use all memory attempt) took more than three times as long -
less memory to use at once, OK. And not necessarily a bad thing.

These "test runs" are completely unrelated to memory fragmentation.
I don't know what you're thinking, but you could at least test the
thing you're trying to fix ...

regards,

Rik
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