Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:19:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:19:28 -0400 Received: from garrincha.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.88]:32274 "HELO garrincha.netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:19:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:21:35 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@imladris.surriel.com To: Andrea Arcangeli cc: Austin Gonyou , Johannes Erdfelt , David Rees , Subject: Re: 2.4.19rc2aa1 VM too aggressive? In-Reply-To: <20020723235254.GB1117@dualathlon.random> 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 Content-Length: 1039 Lines: 29 On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:07:07PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On 19 Jul 2002, Austin Gonyou wrote: > > > > > Notice you're memory utilization jumps here as your free is given to > > > cache. > > > > Swinging back and forth 150 MB per second seems a bit excessive > > for that, especially considering that the previously cached > > memory seems to end up on the free list and the fact that there > > is between 350 and 500 MB free memory. > > if the app allocates and frees 150MB of shm per second that's what the > kernel has to show you. Indeed, though I have to comment that that's rather interesting web server software ;) Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". 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/