Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757788AbYAZAh3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:37:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754762AbYAZAhT (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:37:19 -0500 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([75.144.35.66]:35619 "EHLO lucidpixels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754424AbYAZAhS (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:37:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:37:17 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Piszcz X-X-Sender: jpiszcz@p34.internal.lan To: Yinghai Lu cc: Jesse Barnes , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2 In-Reply-To: <86802c440801251616wb50fa15j8671de0200dad922@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <200801192045.17291.yinghai.lu@sun.com> <200801211209.23901.yinghai.lu@sun.com> <200801221950.06477.yinghai.lu@sun.com> <86802c440801251616wb50fa15j8671de0200dad922@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 0.999999 (DEB 847 2007-12-06) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1543 Lines: 47 On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008 4:01 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote: >> >> > ... >> Tried it, it worked successfully! >> >> With stock kernel, previous way I had to use it was mem=8832M and top >> showed this: >> >> top - 18:53:52 up 1 min, 2 users, load average: 1.03, 0.30, 0.10 >> Tasks: 169 total, 1 running, 168 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie >> Cpu(s): 6.1%us, 2.6%sy, 4.5%ni, 81.3%id, 5.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st >> Mem: 8039464k total, 1288948k used, 6750516k free, 3640k buffers >> Swap: 16787768k total, 0k used, 16787768k free, 178528k cached >> >> With kernel you mentioned and use e820 v3: >> >> top - 18:48:13 up 3 min, 6 users, load average: 1.67, 0.68, 0.25 >> Tasks: 195 total, 2 running, 193 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie >> Cpu(s): 18.5%us, 1.2%sy, 1.6%ni, 74.8%id, 3.9%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st >> Mem: 8037668k total, 1438732k used, 6598936k free, 6844k buffers >> Swap: 16787768k total, 0k used, 16787768k free, 273928k cached >> >> No append mem= required. >> > > > thanks > > any chance to try 32 bit with higemem64 option? > > YH > My distribution is setup for 64-bit (64bit-clean) only, I do not have a 32-bit userland, so cannot help here, sorry. Justin. -- 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/