Re: mem=16MB laptop testing

[Nick Piggin]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> So I tried mem=16m on my laptop (stinkpad T21). I made the following
> potentially useless observations:

snip


> inode_cache               840K           840K     100.00%   
> dentry_cache              746K           753K      99.07%   
> ext3_inode_cache          591K           592K      99.84%   
> size-4096                 504K           504K     100.00%   
> size-512                  203K           204K      99.75%   
> size-2048                 182K           204K      89.22%   
> pgd                       188K           188K     100.00%   
> task_struct               100K           108K      92.86%   
> vm_area_struct             93K           101K      92.28%   
> blkdev_requests           101K           101K     100.00%   

Hmm blkdev_requests looks big. 4 struct requests are allocated for every 
queue,
which totals about 600 bytes. What does /sys/block and the 
blkdev_requests line
from /proc/slabinfo look like?


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