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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 21:42:07 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: time tells all about kernel VM's
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, safemode wrote:

> First the kernel created about 600MB of buffer in addition to the
> application specified 128MB of buffer i had it using (e2defrag -p
> 16384).  This brought the system to a crawl.

Now that I think about it, and read the last message you wrote
in the thread ... do you have some vmstat output during this
time ?

Do you know if e2defrag somehow locks buffers into RAM ?

Rik
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