Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 30 Aug 1996 12:29:06 +0200 (GMT+0200) | From | Peter K <> | Subject | Re: Test-patch for 2.0.15 |
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On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Peter K wrote: > > > > Ugh ! Observe the memory usage ! > > > > total used free shared buffers cached > > Mem: 47088 46504 584 5596 31952 3228 > > -/+ buffers: 11324 35764 > > Ok, "buffers" is obviously _way_ too high. But I can't really say that I > see why this would be so - none of the changes seem to be relevant. Can > you do a "shift+ScrollLock" to see what it reports about the buffers (are > they all dirty, or what?). Does it make a difference if you do a "sync" > by hand (maybe kflushd has some problems with the wait queue and isn't > getting woken up?)
I did <shift><scrl-lck> which showed no funnies.
Anyway, applied your latest and <yawn, yawn, boring, boring> seems to work.
Tks !
(BTW, Linus, you get time to "vacation" on your holiday ?)
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