Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:42:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:41:49 -0400 Received: from garrincha.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.88]:27143 "HELO netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:41:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 21:42:07 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: safemode Cc: Subject: Re: time tells all about kernel VM's In-Reply-To: <20011023030353Z279218-17408+3723@vger.kernel.org> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, safemode wrote: > First the kernel created about 600MB of buffer in addition to the > application specified 128MB of buffer i had it using (e2defrag -p > 16384). This brought the system to a crawl. Now that I think about it, and read the last message you wrote in the thread ... do you have some vmstat output during this time ? Do you know if e2defrag somehow locks buffers into RAM ? Rik -- DMCA, SSSCA, W3C? Who cares? http://thefreeworld.net/ (volunteers needed) http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - 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/