From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261561AbUBYVbo (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:31:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261592AbUBYVaU (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:30:20 -0500 Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net ([64.164.98.8]:10730 "EHLO mta7.pltn13.pbi.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261506AbUBYV1n (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:27:43 -0500 Message-ID: <403D1347.8090801@matchmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:27:35 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040209) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.3-mm3 References: <20040222172200.1d6bdfae.akpm@osdl.org> <403BCE9E.7080607@matchmail.com> <20040224143025.36395730.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040224143025.36395730.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Mike Fedyk wrote: > >>Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.3/2.6.3-mm3/ >> >>Hi, >> >>I have 2.6.3 on the 1.5GB RAM server that started the "large slab" thread. >> >>Which patches should I apply from -mm to test for improvements? > > > Just apply the mm3 rollup patch. I ended up having to do that. :-/ > > >>Do these below have any dependencies not listed? > > > Probably not. If they apply ten they'll work. > They won't apply in the order as listed in the -mm3 series file. :( > >>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 See: http://www.matchmail.com/stats/lrrd/matchmail.com/srv-lnx2600.matchmail.com-memory.html Is there any way I can get the VM patches against 2.6.3? I'm not comfortable with running -mm3 on this production server, especially seeing the "sync hang" bug. Thanks, Mike