Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 05:08:21 -0200
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.28 -> ch..ch...changes....
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 09:36:36PM +0000, Nick Warne wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I updated three boxes today to 2.4.28 (from .27), one at work, and two here at 
> home (Redhat 7.1+, Slackware 10)
> 
> I am intrigued terribly by the small footprint of memory usage now.  I have 
> gone through the changes file, but can really see nothing (to me, a n00b) 
> that would alter that?
> 
> Can anyone enlighten me?

What do you mean by "memory usage"? SLAB (/proc/slabinfo) buffers
or pagecache ?

Whats your workload and what drivers are you using ?

Nothing that I am aware of explains this.
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