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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:01:54 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Dan Chen <crimsun@email.unc.edu>
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Subject: Re: Memory management problems in 2.4.16
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:46:08PM -0500, Dan Chen wrote:
> And on a PII/400 limited to "mem=64M", a `dbench 60` running with XMMS
> 1.2.6 did not cause any noticeable audio breakup. This is on 2.4.17 +
> rmap10c + ide.2.4.16.12102001 + Bill's original hashed waitqueues patch.
> (I should also add that XMMS was not running with realtime priority.)
> I'll see if I can produce some numbers in a bit.

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:42:03AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> I've been running a few hours of low memory testing with
>> my rmap VM and it's holding up fine. The system is still
>> responsive when the amount of pageable RAM is down to
>> about 400 kB ;))

Any chance you could include the results of the following:

/usr/sbin/readprofile -m /boot/System.map-`uname -r` | sort -rn -k1,1 | head
cat /proc/interrupts
cat /proc/slabinfo
cat /proc/meminfo

and a few lines of vmstat 10 ?


Thanks,
Bill
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