Re: Memory + page tables

David S. Miller (davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 11:02:22 -0700


Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 13:56:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: George <greerga@nidhogg.ham.muohio.edu>

Pages table cache takes up 114,688 bytes, quite a bit. Lots of
free memory and cache and the disk light is still on solid from
swapping. 8MB actually booted, 4MB wouldn't boot normally (it
finished all rc.d scripts but never actually gave a log in prompt)
but worked with init=/bin/bash. Actually, it's somewhat usable...

Try disabling the pgtable cache like so:

bash# echo "0 0" >/proc/sys/vm/pagetable_cache

Does it make things behave better?

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

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