From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.3-mm3
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:32:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <403D4CBE.9080805@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <403D468D.2090901@cyberone.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>
> Mike Fedyk wrote:
>
>>>
>>>> What about Nick's fix up patch for the two patches above? Should I
>>>> include that one also?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I'm running 2.6.3-mm3-486-fazok (nick's patch), and it has improved my
>> slab usage greatly. It was averaging 500MB-700MB slab. Now slab is
>> ~230MB, and page cache is ~700MB
>>
>
> That is a much better sounding ratio. Of course that doesn't mean much
> if performance is worse. Slab might be getting reclaimed a little bit
> too hard vs pagecache now.
>
I'll let you know. My graphs are looking better, except for one
instance of Xvnc (for one user -- I'm still tracking that one down)
hitting a memory grabbing loop that made me kill it.
>> See:
>> http://www.matchmail.com/stats/lrrd/matchmail.com/srv-lnx2600.matchmail.com-memory.html
>>
>>
>> Is there any way I can get the VM patches against 2.6.3? I'm not
>> comfortable with running -mm3 on this production server, especially
>> seeing the "sync hang" bug.
>>
>
> Well your server wasn't going too badly with 2.6.3, wasn't it? Might
> as well just wait for them to get into the the tree.
I might as well take out the third 512MB DIMM in that machine then...
Any chance you could post a VM patch roll-up against 2.6.3 for little
ole me?
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-26 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-23 1:22 2.6.3-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 1:43 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 1:55 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 2:02 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 2:51 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 3:04 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 8:08 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 8:48 ` [PATCH] vm-fix-all_zones_ok (was Re: 2.6.3-mm3) Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 8:59 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 9:21 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 9:24 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 16:23 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-23 22:47 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-24 4:11 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-24 9:12 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-24 9:22 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-24 9:30 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-24 9:37 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-24 20:55 ` Rik van Riel
2004-02-24 22:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-24 22:41 ` Rik van Riel
2004-02-23 2:19 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-23 2:52 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Joshua Kwan
2004-02-23 3:34 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Joshua Kwan
2004-02-23 18:09 ` [patch] 2.6.3-mm3: ALSA miXart driver doesn't compile Adrian Bunk
2004-02-23 18:58 ` 2.6.3-mm3 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-02-23 20:00 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-02-24 22:22 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-24 22:30 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 21:27 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-26 1:06 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-26 1:18 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-02-26 1:28 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-26 1:32 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2004-02-26 1:52 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-26 2:34 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-26 2:40 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-26 2:48 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-26 3:05 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-26 3:19 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-26 3:29 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-26 4:08 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-26 4:56 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-27 19:02 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-27 21:57 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-02-25 0:26 ` 2.6.3-mm3 hangs on boot x440 (scsi?) john stultz
2004-02-25 1:06 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 1:22 ` john stultz
2004-02-25 1:27 ` john stultz
2004-02-25 1:48 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:15 ` john stultz
2004-02-26 14:40 ` Go Taniguchi
2004-02-26 21:26 ` john stultz
2004-02-26 23:02 ` john stultz
2004-02-26 23:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-27 0:14 ` john stultz
2004-02-27 0:58 ` john stultz
2004-02-27 2:25 ` john stultz
2004-02-25 1:15 ` [PATCH 2.6.3-mm3] serialize_writeback_fdatawait patch Daniel McNeil
2004-02-25 1:43 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:56 ` Daniel McNeil
2004-02-25 2:51 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-25 3:09 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 3:34 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-25 10:47 ` 2.6.3-mm3 sometimes freeze on "sync" Helge Hafting
2004-02-25 9:39 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-26 8:49 ` Helge Hafting
2004-02-27 14:49 ` Alexander Hoogerhuis
2004-02-27 23:34 ` 2.6.3-mm3 john stultz
2004-02-28 0:06 ` 2.6.3-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-02-28 2:48 ` 2.6.3-mm3 (ioremap failure w/ _X86_4G and _NUMA) john stultz
2004-02-28 3:18 ` Dave Hansen
2004-02-28 4:34 ` Martin J. Bligh
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