Re: Rik spreading bullshit about VM

Bongani Hlope (bonganilinux@mweb.co.za)
16 Jan 2002 22:58:31 +0200


On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 21:04, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
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> 3) Details of typical runs:
>
> 2.4.7:

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> ------

>
> c)
> meminfo during run:
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 1051394048 1047044096 4349952 443473920 1052672 294608896
> Swap: 4294934528 1314680832 2980253696
> MemTotal: 1026752 kB
> MemFree: 4248 kB
> MemShared: 433080 kB <============== [1]
> Buffers: 1028 kB
> Cached: 20900 kB
> SwapCached: 266804 kB
> Active: 694700 kB
> Inact_dirty: 19296 kB
> Inact_clean: 7816 kB
> Inact_target: 12836 kB
> HighTotal: 131072 kB
> HighFree: 1460 kB
> LowTotal: 895680 kB
> LowFree: 2788 kB
> SwapTotal: 4194272 kB
> SwapFree: 2910404 kB
> NrSwapPages: 727602 pages
>
>
> ###################################################################
>
> 2.4.14:
> --------
>
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> c)
> meminfo during run:
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 1052712960 1046528000 6184960 0 319488 856850432
> Swap: 4294934528 1313320960 2981613568
> MemTotal: 1028040 kB
> MemFree: 6040 kB
> MemShared: 0 kB <================ [2]
> Buffers: 312 kB
> Cached: 714576 kB
> SwapCached: 122192 kB
> Active: 851084 kB
> Inactive: 113592 kB
> HighTotal: 131072 kB
> HighFree: 2044 kB
> LowTotal: 896968 kB
> LowFree: 3996 kB
> SwapTotal: 4194272 kB
> SwapFree: 2911732 kB

Andrea your VM also works perfectly for me, and I think you are doing
a brilliant job on it. The only thing that I have noticed that worries
me is the lack of MemShared. I wass about to study the code and try to
find out why it is always 0 kB on my PC, but these stats also show the
same results. Do you have any idea why this is so. I will still study
the code (just for the fun of it), maybe I might learn something about
te VM system.

-Bongani

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