From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261463AbUBZBSt (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:18:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262592AbUBZBSt (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:18:49 -0500 Received: from lindsey.linux-systeme.com ([62.241.33.80]:21252 "EHLO mx00.linux-systeme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261463AbUBZBSr (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:18:47 -0500 From: Marc-Christian Petersen Organization: Working Overloaded Linux Kernel To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.3-mm3 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 02:18:19 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 Cc: Nick Piggin , Mike Fedyk , Andrew Morton References: <20040222172200.1d6bdfae.akpm@osdl.org> <403D1347.8090801@matchmail.com> <403D468D.2090901@cyberone.com.au> In-Reply-To: <403D468D.2090901@cyberone.com.au> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.20-wolk4.10s i686 GNU/Linux MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402260217.49239@WOLK> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 26 February 2004 02:06, Nick Piggin wrote: Hi, > >>> What about Nick's fix up patch for the two patches above? Should I > >>> include that one also? > > I'm running 2.6.3-mm3-486-fazok (nick's patch), and it has improved my > > slab usage greatly. It was averaging 500MB-700MB slab. Now slab is > > ~230MB, and page cache is ~700MB > That is a much better sounding ratio. Of course that doesn't mean much > if performance is worse. Slab might be getting reclaimed a little bit > too hard vs pagecache now. sorry for not following this thread, but where do I find the mm3 rollup patch this thread is talking about? akpm's directory does not contain it, or I am blind b/c it isn't named like that or similar ;> ciao, Marc