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From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mem=16MB laptop testing
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:35:59 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8C966F.5080109@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031014105514.GH765@holomorphy.com>



William Lee Irwin III wrote:

>So I tried mem=16m on my laptop (stinkpad T21). I made the following
>potentially useless observations:
>

snip


>
>inode_cache               840K           840K     100.00%   
>dentry_cache              746K           753K      99.07%   
>ext3_inode_cache          591K           592K      99.84%   
>size-4096                 504K           504K     100.00%   
>size-512                  203K           204K      99.75%   
>size-2048                 182K           204K      89.22%   
>pgd                       188K           188K     100.00%   
>task_struct               100K           108K      92.86%   
>vm_area_struct             93K           101K      92.28%   
>blkdev_requests           101K           101K     100.00%   
>

Hmm blkdev_requests looks big. 4 struct requests are allocated for every 
queue,
which totals about 600 bytes. What does /sys/block and the 
blkdev_requests line
from /proc/slabinfo look like?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-15  0:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-14 10:55 mem=16MB laptop testing William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-14 11:01 ` John Bradford
2003-10-14 11:08   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-14 13:20     ` John Bradford
2003-10-14 11:56 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-14 11:58   ` Russell King
2003-10-14 12:10     ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-14 12:18       ` Russell King
2003-10-14 12:30         ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-14 12:17   ` Anton Blanchard
2003-10-14 12:31     ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-14 12:44       ` Anton Blanchard
2003-10-14 23:40         ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-15 13:32           ` Martin Waitz
2003-10-15 17:34             ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-14 12:28   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-15 12:12   ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-15 12:51     ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-15 13:20       ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-15 13:28         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-15 13:59           ` Larry Sendlosky
2003-10-15 15:34             ` Dave Jones
2003-10-15 15:38             ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-10-15 16:06               ` Dave Jones
2003-10-15 17:45               ` Mike Dresser
2003-10-15 15:32         ` Dave Jones
2003-10-15 17:20           ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-15  0:35 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2003-10-15  4:31 ` Andrew Morton

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