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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> It would be nice to have some fragmentation numbers for this. One
> really simple test case is to grep for MemTotal and MemFree in
> /proc/meminfo. I'd expect to see some small improvement with your
> patch applied.

Small correction: grep them immediately after you've booted up the
kernel. If you run applications, the numbers are not comparable.

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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> It would be nice to have some fragmentation numbers for this. One
> really simple test case is to grep for MemTotal and MemFree in
> /proc/meminfo. I'd expect to see some small improvement with your
> patch applied.

Small correction: grep them immediately after you've booted up the
kernel. If you run applications, the numbers are not comparable.

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