From: Joe Green <jgreen@mvista.com>
To: "Michael Fischer" <fischi@epygi.de>,
<linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Memory optimization of diskless system
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:33:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01080909352601.18546@minotaur.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OEEHJMIIDJHHMFGGDNGDCEPACEAA.fischi@epygi.de>
Michael Fischer wrote:
> i have a Linuxppc Kernel 2.4.8 pre 4 running on a motorola asd8260 board
> (16M ram). When using initrd and ramdisk to boot the system i run into out
> of memory problems.
> proc/meminfo shows:
>
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 14958592 12062720 2895872 7421952 6656000 2191360
> Swap: 0 0 0
> MemTotal: 14608 kB
> MemFree: 2828 kB
> MemShared: 7248 kB
> Buffers: 6500 kB
> Cached: 2140 kB
> Active: 8640 kB
> Inact_dirty: 0 kB
> Inact_clean: 0 kB
> Inact_target: 12 kB
> HighTotal: 0 kB
> HighFree: 0 kB
> LowTotal: 14608 kB
> LowFree: 2828 kB
> SwapTotal: 0 kB
> SwapFree: 0 kB
>
> is it really necessary to have so many buffers allocated and if not, how can
> i change the amount?
How big is you ramdisk? That's included in the buffers.
--
Joe Green <jgreen@mvista.com>
MontaVista Software, Inc.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-09 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-09 14:49 Memory optimization of diskless system Michael Fischer
2001-08-09 16:33 ` Joe Green [this message]
2001-08-09 17:05 ` Scott Anderson
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