Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261262AbVDDPNC (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2005 11:13:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261259AbVDDPNB (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2005 11:13:01 -0400 Received: from hamlet.e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.154.223]:57277 "EHLO hamlet.e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261262AbVDDPM3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2005 11:12:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1112625375.5680.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1112577841.6035.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1112625375.5680.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-32--971130394" Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Roland Kuhn Subject: Re: UPDATE: out of vmalloc space - but vmalloc parameter does not allow boot Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 17:12:19 +0200 To: Ranko Zivojnovic X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.0.1 (v33, 10.3) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2349 Lines: 70 --Apple-Mail-32--971130394 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Hi Ranko! On Apr 4, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Ranko Zivojnovic wrote: > (please do CC replies as I am still not on the list) > > As I am kind of pressured to resolve this issue, I've set up a test > environment using VMWare in order to reproduce the problem and > (un)fortunately the attempt was successful. > > I have noticed a few points that relate to the size of the physical RAM > and the behavior vmalloc. As I am not sure if this is by design or a > bug, so please someone enlighten me: > > The strange thing I have seen is that with the increase of the physical > RAM, the VmallocTotal in the /proc/meminfo gets smaller! Is this how it > is supposed to be? > Well, I'm by no means a VM expert (not even a regular kernel hacker), but it seems to me that the sum of LowTotal and VmallocTotal is rather constant for the different settings. Alas, I cannot offer an explanation why this should be, so hopefully a knowledgeable person will shed some light on this issue. Ciao, Roland -- TU Muenchen, Physik-Department E18, James-Franck-Str. 85747 Garching Telefon 089/289-12592; Telefax 089/289-12570 -- When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- R. Buckminster Fuller -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GS/CS/M/MU d-(++) s:+ a-> C+++ UL++++ P-(+) L+++ E(+) W+ !N K- w--- M+ !V Y+ PGP++ t+(++) 5 R+ tv-- b+ DI++ e+++>++++ h---- x+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ --Apple-Mail-32--971130394 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCUVlYI4MWO8QIRP0RAv7RAJ0RDqN3o4m3ueTXbZj2yGW4TxR1jgCffi62 Fa+GHKQBCb/K08CTvCsYCq0= =U2cz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-32--971130394-- - 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/