Re: Free memory level in 2.6.16?

Steve Bergman
2006-10-05T20:09:30Z

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 22:01 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

>
> Normally it keeps some memory free for interrupt handlers which
> cannot free other memory. But 150MB is indeed a lot, especially
> it's only in the ~900MB lowmem zone.
>
> You could play with /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio but must
> likely some defaults need tweaking.

Thank you for the reply, Andi. This kernel is compiled with the .config
from the original FC5 release, which used kernel 2.6.15. I just ran
"make oldconfig" on it and accepted the defaults.

So it is, I believe, a 4GB/4GB split. Does that make a difference?

Thanks,
Steve Bergman