Re: 2.4.19rc2aa1 VM too aggressive?

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:21:35 -0300 (BRT)


On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:07:07PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On 19 Jul 2002, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> >
> > > Notice you're memory utilization jumps here as your free is given to
> > > cache.
> >
> > Swinging back and forth 150 MB per second seems a bit excessive
> > for that, especially considering that the previously cached
> > memory seems to end up on the free list and the fact that there
> > is between 350 and 500 MB free memory.
>
> if the app allocates and frees 150MB of shm per second that's what the
> kernel has to show you.

Indeed, though I have to comment that that's rather interesting
web server software ;)

Rik

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