Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:57:35 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [OSDL][BENCHMARK] OSDL-DBT-2 - 2.4 vs 2.5 4-way/8-way with vmstat |
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Cliff White wrote: > > ... > These loads suck up all the memory they can, so anything that gives us more > free memory should > be goodness. We think we are also seeing improvements in 2.5 in free memory, > but > we don't know for sure where is best to look and how best to prove it. > Any advice?
Monitoring /proc/meminfo would be the main means. Further info could be obtained by drilling down into /proc/vmstat and /proc/slabinfo (the latter via bloatmeter, preferably).
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/
Martin Bligh is working on another VM reporting tool `vmtop', which would be appropriate for that as well. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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