Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Wed Aug 31 2005 - 12:25:41 EST


Holger Kiehl wrote:

meminfo.dump:

MemTotal: 8124172 kB
MemFree: 23564 kB
Buffers: 7825944 kB
Cached: 19216 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 25708 kB
Inactive: 7835548 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 8124172 kB
LowFree: 23564 kB
SwapTotal: 15631160 kB
SwapFree: 15631160 kB
Dirty: 3145604 kB

Hmm OK, dirty memory is pinned pretty much exactly on dirty_ratio
so maybe I've just led you on a goose chase.

You could
echo 5 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
echo 10 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio

To further reduce dirty memory in the system, however this is
a long shot, so please continue your interaction with the
other people in the thread first.

Thanks,
Nick

--
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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