From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Cliff White <cliffw@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OSDL][BENCHMARK] OSDL-DBT-2 - 2.4 vs 2.5 4-way/8-way with vmstat
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:57:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E3AFF5F.89C84069@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200301312247.h0VMlxB09932@mail.osdl.org
Cliff White wrote:
>
> ...
> These loads suck up all the memory they can, so anything that gives us more
> free memory should
> be goodness. We think we are also seeing improvements in 2.5 in free memory,
> but
> we don't know for sure where is best to look and how best to prove it.
> Any advice?
Monitoring /proc/meminfo would be the main means. Further
info could be obtained by drilling down into /proc/vmstat
and /proc/slabinfo (the latter via bloatmeter, preferably).
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/
Martin Bligh is working on another VM reporting tool `vmtop', which
would be appropriate for that as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-31 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20030131141350.370c287a.akpm@digeo.com>
2003-01-31 22:47 ` [OSDL][BENCHMARK] OSDL-DBT-2 - 2.4 vs 2.5 4-way/8-way with vmstat Cliff White
2003-01-31 22:57 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-01-31 20:26 Cliff White
2003-01-31 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
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