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From: Joe Green <jgreen@mvista.com>
To: "Michael Fischer" <fischi@epygi.de>,
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Subject: Re: Memory optimization of diskless system
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:33:46 -0700
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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.

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Joe Green <jgreen@mvista.com>
MontaVista Software, Inc.

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