Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:32:46 -0800 | | From | Mike Fedyk <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.3-mm3 |
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Nick Piggin wrote: > > > Mike Fedyk wrote: > >>> >>>> What about Nick's fix up patch for the two patches above? Should I >>>> include that one also? >>> >>> >> >> I'm running 2.6.3-mm3-486-fazok (nick's patch), and it has improved my >> slab usage greatly. It was averaging 500MB-700MB slab. Now slab is >> ~230MB, and page cache is ~700MB >> > > That is a much better sounding ratio. Of course that doesn't mean much > if performance is worse. Slab might be getting reclaimed a little bit > too hard vs pagecache now. >
I'll let you know. My graphs are looking better, except for one instance of Xvnc (for one user -- I'm still tracking that one down) hitting a memory grabbing loop that made me kill it.
>> See: >> http://www.matchmail.com/stats/lrrd/matchmail.com/srv-lnx2600.matchmail.com-memory.html >> >> >> Is there any way I can get the VM patches against 2.6.3? I'm not >> comfortable with running -mm3 on this production server, especially >> seeing the "sync hang" bug. >> > > Well your server wasn't going too badly with 2.6.3, wasn't it? Might > as well just wait for them to get into the the tree.
I might as well take out the third 512MB DIMM in that machine then...
Any chance you could post a VM patch roll-up against 2.6.3 for little ole me?
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