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, 31 Jan 2003 17:48:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:48:20 -0500 Received: from packet.digeo.com ([12.110.80.53]:1260 "EHLO packet.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:48:19 -0500 Message-ID: <3E3AFF5F.89C84069@digeo.com> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:57:35 -0800 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.5.51 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff White CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OSDL][BENCHMARK] OSDL-DBT-2 - 2.4 vs 2.5 4-way/8-way with vmstat References: <200301312247.h0VMlxB09932@mail.osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Jan 2003 22:57:39.0263 (UTC) FILETIME=[275254F0:01C2C97C] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cliff White wrote: > > ... > These loads suck up all the memory they can, so anything that gives us more > free memory should > be goodness. We think we are also seeing improvements in 2.5 in free memory, > but > we don't know for sure where is best to look and how best to prove it. > Any advice? Monitoring /proc/meminfo would be the main means. Further info could be obtained by drilling down into /proc/vmstat and /proc/slabinfo (the latter via bloatmeter, preferably). http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ Martin Bligh is working on another VM reporting tool `vmtop', which would be appropriate for that as well.