> I've got a P90 laptop with 40M *1. Somewhere between 2.3.24 and
> 2.3.27-final the kernel started keeping 15M or more free all the time.
> On a 40M laptop that makes a big difference. *smile*
[snip]
> What kinds of things could I do to help track this down? I'll
> start off by going back to an older kernel and figure out where the
2.3.26 does not suffer from this; free memory is down to 1.4M,
right about where I'd expect it.
I'm reasonably certain 2.3.27-pre6 _did_ have this problem as
well.
Cheers,
- Bill
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