Re: Where's all my memory going?

[David Rees]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:55:42PM +0000, Matt Dainty wrote:
>
> Patch applied cleanly, and I redid the 'test'. I've attached the output
> of free and /proc/slabinfo, *.1 is without patch, *.2 is with. In both
> cases postal was left to run for about 35 minutes by which time it had
> delivered around ~54000 messages locally.
> 
> Overall, with the patch, the large numbers in /proc/slabinfo are *still*
> large, but not as large as without the patch. Overall memory usage still
> seems similar.

So the performance of the test was the same with or without the patch?

Does top or vmstat indicate any kind of difference on the system when the
benchmark is pushing 1500 msgs/s vs 150 msgs/s?

There's a kernel profiling tool somewhere that might also help if there's a
large amount of system time being used up.  (I think this is it:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kernprof/)

-Dave