Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269068AbUIQWNv (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:13:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269366AbUIQWKM (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:10:12 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:17643 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269182AbUIQWGa (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:06:30 -0400 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 00:06:13 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kkeil@suse.de Subject: Re: [patch] tune vmalloc size Message-ID: <20040917220613.GA16920@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <2EHyq-5or-39@gated-at.bofh.it> <1095257576.2698.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20040917220340.GA2890@taniwha.stupidest.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wac7ysb48OaltWcw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040917220340.GA2890@taniwha.stupidest.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1137 Lines: 37 --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 03:03:40PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 04:12:56PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > that is the case already > > why do we still use 128MB as a default then? this is way over-kill > from what i can tell looking on what my machines use. i'd rather have > this be a bit smaller and enable the slab/whatever to grow a little > more if you have an old glibc it will use ldt's which in turn use vmalloc for threading... 128Mb is no luxury there. --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBS1/UxULwo51rQBIRAvdpAKCroO0NkTlcVT0XwnzixBkRR8wWWQCfW7Wl VGEFgCOuGnzAx6h+LVwLS2E= =Yxn+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/