From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 05:26:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 05:26:49 -0400 Received: from ns.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.10]:7434 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 05:26:36 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:25:20 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Roger Larsson Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Upd: [PATCH NG] alloc_pages_limit & pages_min Message-Id: <20010824112520.5f01626f.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200108231933.f7NJX8j21551@mailc.telia.com> In-Reply-To: <200108231933.f7NJX8j21551@mailc.telia.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.5.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:28:44 +0200 Roger Larsson wrote: > Riel convinced be to back off a part of the patch. > Here comes an updated one. Hello Roger, this does not solve my problem with NFS-copies. Just for information. I tried and did not work. Besides I expected the patch to make the free pages pool somehow bigger during file-copies, but ended up with this situation: total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 921726976 918573056 3153920 0 12337152 816504832 Swap: 271392768 0 271392768 MemTotal: 900124 kB MemFree: 3080 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 12048 kB Cached: 797368 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 473628 kB Inact_dirty: 331796 kB Inact_clean: 3992 kB Inact_target: 1940 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 900124 kB LowFree: 3080 kB SwapTotal: 265032 kB SwapFree: 265032 kB The MemFree isn't really a lot compared to inact_dirty. knfsd fails at least. Regards, Stephan