Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Unbloating the kernel, was: :mem=16MB laptop testing | Date | 15 Oct 2003 09:52:01 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20031015130614.GI765@holomorphy.com> By author: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Well, unless it's an interrupts-safe critical section that's hurting, > you could take profiles, provided you have enough RAM for the profile > buffer (which appears to be large). You could easily do a quick hack > to steal the profile buffer from e820 regions not otherwise used for > RAM (i.e. unused because you did mem=) to handle that for a slow cpu > with more RAM than 8MB. >
Or just reduce mem= by enough less that you gain the profile buffer back.
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