On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:29:37PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:If you still have any of these workloads around, they would be
[...] but I'm quite confortable to say that up to 16G (included) 4:4i've seen workloads on 8G RAM systems that easily filled up the ~800 MB
is worthless unless you've to deal with the rmap waste IMHO. [...]
lowmem zone. (it had to do with many files and having them as a big
dentry cache, so yes, it's unfixable unless you start putting inodes
into highmem which is crazy. And yes, performance broke down unless most
of the dentries/inodes were cached in lowmem.)
I also have workloads that would die with 4:4 and rmap.