From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Imre Gergely <gimre@narancs.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Finding lost memory + kernel messages explained
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:31:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6ua86f4.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49DDB609.8050405@narancs.net> (Imre Gergely's message of "Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:47:05 +0300")
Imre Gergely <gimre@narancs.net> writes:
>
> That would be around 3896MB. My question is: where does the memory go?
> Is it normal to 'lose' that much (~130MB) ?
I wrote a paper about this topic some time ago.
http://halobates.de/memory.pdf
http://halobates.de/memorywaste.pdf
> One thing I tried was appending iommu=off at boot, which gave me back
That means if you have any devices that cannot addresses > 32bit they
will panic with that setting.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-09 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-09 8:47 Finding lost memory + kernel messages explained Imre Gergely
2009-04-09 10:31 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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2009-04-09 18:22 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-10 0:57 ` Robert Hancock
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