From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>
To: "Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali)" <rarakali@cisco.com>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about free/used memory on Linux
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:51:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <471C8ED4.7080400@aitel.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FA6FB5FA4DA6BF4386D129273B2E3EC3024B847C@xmb-sjc-214.amer.cisco.com>
Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali) wrote:
> Hi Vaidy,
> Thanks for clarifying several of my doubts.
>
> To answer your question about my intention, we currently have a
> system with 2 GB RAM and I need to find out the actual used and
> free memory so that we can decide if the same setup(applications,
> tmpfs etc.) can run on another system with lesser memory.
>
You can test this directly.
Boot your 2G machine with
mem=<size of smaller system>
Then the machine uses less memory, you get
a realistic test of how the smaller machine will
perform.
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-22 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-21 17:54 Question about free/used memory on Linux Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali)
2007-10-21 19:00 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2007-10-21 20:21 ` Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali)
2007-10-22 5:50 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2007-10-22 6:28 ` Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali)
2007-11-14 6:14 ` Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali)
2007-11-14 11:58 ` Pádraig Brady
2007-11-14 18:18 ` Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali)
2007-10-22 11:51 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2007-10-22 17:34 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-10-22 10:05 ` Pádraig Brady
2007-10-23 1:58 ` Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali)
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