Re: 2.4.28 -> ch..ch...changes....

Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-24T12:18:26Z

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 09:36:36PM +0000, Nick Warne wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I updated three boxes today to 2.4.28 (from .27), one at work, and two here at
> home (Redhat 7.1+, Slackware 10)
>
> I am intrigued terribly by the small footprint of memory usage now. I have
> gone through the changes file, but can really see nothing (to me, a n00b)
> that would alter that?
>
> Can anyone enlighten me?

What do you mean by "memory usage"? SLAB (/proc/slabinfo) buffers
or pagecache ?

Whats your workload and what drivers are you using ?

Nothing that I am aware of explains this.