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From: Steve Bergman <sbergman@rueb.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Free memory level in 2.6.16?
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:41:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160080879.29452.24.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73k63ezg3y.fsf@verdi.suse.de>

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 22:01 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

> 
> You could play with /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio but must
> likely some defaults need tweaking.

Hmmm, after a bit of googling and a download of 2.6.18, it seems that
documentation on lowmem_reserve_ratio is still on the todo list.

cat /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio 

gives me "256 256 32" on the system in question.  Can someone give me a
quick rundown of what this means?

Thanks,
Steve Bergman

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-05 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1160034527.23009.7.camel@localhost>
2006-10-05 20:01 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 20:10   ` Steve Bergman
2006-10-05 20:17     ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 20:41   ` Steve Bergman [this message]

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