From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263126AbTJONIx (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:08:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263128AbTJONIx (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:08:53 -0400 Received: from dyn-ctb-210-9-246-230.webone.com.au ([210.9.246.230]:36618 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263126AbTJONIw (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:08:52 -0400 Message-ID: <3F8D46D7.1020105@cyberone.com.au> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:08:39 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan-Benedict Glaw CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unbloating the kernel, was: :mem=16MB laptop testing References: <200310141733.h9EHXnYg002262@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <20031015124314.GD20846@lug-owl.de> In-Reply-To: <20031015124314.GD20846@lug-owl.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >On Tue, 2003-10-14 18:33:49 +0100, John Bradford >wrote in message <200310141733.h9EHXnYg002262@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>: > >>No, 2.6 should run on a 4MB 386 with no significant performance >>penalty against 2.0, in my opinion. >> > >Achtually, with HZ at around 100 (or oven 70..80), an old i386 or i486 >will *start* just fine, at least at 8MB. However, over some days / >weeks, the machine gets slower and slower (my testdrive: my 90MHz >P-Classic with 16MB). Even with that "much" RAM, I get hit by whatever >slows down the machine. I *think* that it's the MM subsystem, but I'm >really not skilled enough with it to blame it:) > Thats interesting. Its probably a memory leak I guess. Make sure to rule out memory leaks in userspace applications, then get /proc/meminfo, /proc/slabinfo on the box after it is getting slow, and also, after the box is newly booted. Thanks