Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:08:39 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Unbloating the kernel, was: :mem=16MB laptop testing |
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Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-10-14 18:33:49 +0100, John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> >wrote in message <200310141733.h9EHXnYg002262@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>: > >>No, 2.6 should run on a 4MB 386 with no significant performance >>penalty against 2.0, in my opinion. >> > >Achtually, with HZ at around 100 (or oven 70..80), an old i386 or i486 >will *start* just fine, at least at 8MB. However, over some days / >weeks, the machine gets slower and slower (my testdrive: my 90MHz >P-Classic with 16MB). Even with that "much" RAM, I get hit by whatever >slows down the machine. I *think* that it's the MM subsystem, but I'm >really not skilled enough with it to blame it:) >
Thats interesting. Its probably a memory leak I guess. Make sure to rule out memory leaks in userspace applications, then get /proc/meminfo, /proc/slabinfo on the box after it is getting slow, and also, after the box is newly booted.
Thanks
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