From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932108AbWJEUkW (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:40:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932110AbWJEUkW (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:40:22 -0400 Received: from eastrmmtao04.cox.net ([68.230.240.35]:60051 "EHLO eastrmmtao04.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932103AbWJEUkT (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:40:19 -0400 Subject: Re: Free memory level in 2.6.16? From: Steve Bergman To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: References: <1160034527.23009.7.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:41:19 -0500 Message-Id: <1160080879.29452.24.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 22:01 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > You could play with /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio but must > likely some defaults need tweaking. Hmmm, after a bit of googling and a download of 2.6.18, it seems that documentation on lowmem_reserve_ratio is still on the todo list. cat /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio gives me "256 256 32" on the system in question. Can someone give me a quick rundown of what this means? Thanks, Steve Bergman