linux-kernel - Re: [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:28:46 -0400
From:	"Michael Chang" <thenewme91@...il.com>
To:	"Paul Jackson" <pj@....com>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, david@...g.hm,
	nickpiggin@...oo.com.au, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	ray-lk@...rabbit.org, jesper.juhl@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ck@....kolivas.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	rene.herman@...il.com
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

On 7/25/07, Paul Jackson <pj@....com> wrote:
> Question:
>   Could those who have found this prefetch helps them alot say how
>   many disks they have?  In particular, is their swap on the same
>   disk spindle as their root and user files?

I have found that swap prefetch helped on all of the four machines
machine I have, although the effect is more noticeable on machines
with slower disks. They all have one hard disk, and root and swap were
always on the same disk. I have no idea how to determine how many disk
spindles they have, but since the drives are mainly low-end consumer
models sold with low-end sub $500 PCs...

-- 
Michael Chang

Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. Send me ODT,
RTF, or HTML instead.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Thank you.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/