From: Robert Creager <Robert_Creager@LogicalChaos.org>
To: Bruce Harada <bharada@coral.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with virtually no buffer usage in 2.4.21mdk kernel
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 12:26:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030526122655.0042c298.Robert_Creager@LogicalChaos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030527024141.5b168415.bharada@coral.ocn.ne.jp>
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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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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-25 4:33 Problem with virtually no buffer usage in 2.4.21mdk kernel Robert Creager
2003-05-25 6:18 ` Bruce Harada
2003-05-25 14:12 ` Robert Creager
2003-05-26 17:41 ` Bruce Harada
2003-05-26 18:26 ` Robert Creager [this message]
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