Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Free memory level in 2.6.16? | From | Steve Bergman <> | Date | Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:10:29 -0500 |
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On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 22:01 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Normally it keeps some memory free for interrupt handlers which > cannot free other memory. But 150MB is indeed a lot, especially > it's only in the ~900MB lowmem zone. > > You could play with /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio but must > likely some defaults need tweaking.
Thank you for the reply, Andi. This kernel is compiled with the .config from the original FC5 release, which used kernel 2.6.15. I just ran "make oldconfig" on it and accepted the defaults.
So it is, I believe, a 4GB/4GB split. Does that make a difference?
Thanks, Steve Bergman
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