From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262593AbUBZB26 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:28:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262599AbUBZB26 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:28:58 -0500 Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net ([151.164.30.28]:16804 "EHLO mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262593AbUBZB2u (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:28:50 -0500 Message-ID: <403D4BBD.608@matchmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:28:29 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040209) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc-Christian Petersen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.3-mm3 References: <20040222172200.1d6bdfae.akpm@osdl.org> <403D1347.8090801@matchmail.com> <403D468D.2090901@cyberone.com.au> <200402260217.49239@WOLK> In-Reply-To: <200402260217.49239@WOLK> 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 Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > 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 ;> It's just the regular ~2MB bz2 file you normally get (ie, it's not "split-out" like in the directory where all patches are seperate...)