Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:37:52 -0500 (EST) | From | William Stearns <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.27 always keeping 15M free? |
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, William Stearns wrote:
> I've got a P90 laptop with 40M *1. Somewhere between 2.3.24 and > 2.3.27-final the kernel started keeping 15M or more free all the time. > On a 40M laptop that makes a big difference. *smile* [snip] > What kinds of things could I do to help track this down? I'll > start off by going back to an older kernel and figure out where the
2.3.26 does not suffer from this; free memory is down to 1.4M, right about where I'd expect it. I'm reasonably certain 2.3.27-pre6 _did_ have this problem as well. Cheers, - Bill
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