Re: Unbloating the kernel, was: :mem=16MB laptop testing

[Nick Piggin]

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-10-14 18:33:49 +0100, John Bradford <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote in message <200310141733.h9EHXnYg002262@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > No, 2.6 should run on a 4MB 386 with no significant performance
> > penalty against 2.0, in my opinion.
>
> Achtually, with HZ at around 100 (or oven 70..80), an old i386 or i486
> will *start* just fine, at least at 8MB. However, over some days /
> weeks, the machine gets slower and slower (my testdrive: my 90MHz
> P-Classic with 16MB). Even with that "much" RAM, I get hit by whatever
> slows down the machine. I *think* that it's the MM subsystem, but I'm
> really not skilled enough with it to blame it:)

Thats interesting. Its probably a memory leak I guess. Make sure to rule out
memory leaks in userspace applications, then get /proc/meminfo, 
/proc/slabinfo
on the box after it is getting slow, and also, after the box is newly 
booted.

Thanks


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