Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 May 2003 12:26:55 -0600 | From | Robert Creager <> | Subject | Re: Problem with virtually no buffer usage in 2.4.21mdk kernel |
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On Tue, 27 May 2003 02:41:41 +0900 Bruce Harada <bharada@coral.ocn.ne.jp> said something like:
> On Sun, 25 May 2003 08:12:53 -0600 > Robert Creager <Robert_Creager@LogicalChaos.org> wrote: > > > That's why I said virtually no buffer usage (not shared memory). I'm > > looking at the 88kb (90112). On my other two systems, both 2.4.19 with > > 640Mb and 128Mb memory, the buffer usage is 86Mb, and 44Mb respectivly. > > > > Other thoughts? > > Ah, my apologies. As for why your buffer usage is so low, it's likely a bit > difficult to tell whether it's indicative of a problem without knowing what > patches have been applied to the Mandrake kernel. Also, I believe the buffers > value these days isn't as useful a metric as it used to be, so personally I > wouldn't worry about it too much, unless you're seeing problems with the box. >
I'm not seeing any problems that I'm aware of, just trying to eak out a little more performance out of the box, and the lack of disk buffer usage seems suspicious.
I may try backing of to a known released kernel, and see what happens...
Cheers, Rob
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