linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2

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Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:37:17 -0500 (EST)
From:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
cc:	Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@...el.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2



On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> On Jan 25, 2008 4:01 PM, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com> wrote:
>>
>>
> ...
>> Tried it, it worked successfully!
>>
>> With stock kernel, previous way I had to use it was mem=8832M and top
>> showed this:
>>
>> top - 18:53:52 up 1 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.03, 0.30, 0.10
>> Tasks: 169 total,   1 running, 168 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>> Cpu(s):  6.1%us,  2.6%sy,  4.5%ni, 81.3%id,  5.5%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
>> Mem:   8039464k total,  1288948k used,  6750516k free,     3640k buffers
>> Swap: 16787768k total,        0k used, 16787768k free,   178528k cached
>>
>> With kernel you mentioned and use e820 v3:
>>
>> top - 18:48:13 up 3 min,  6 users,  load average: 1.67, 0.68, 0.25
>> Tasks: 195 total,   2 running, 193 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>> Cpu(s): 18.5%us,  1.2%sy,  1.6%ni, 74.8%id,  3.9%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
>> Mem:   8037668k total,  1438732k used,  6598936k free,     6844k buffers
>> Swap: 16787768k total,        0k used, 16787768k free,   273928k cached
>>
>> No append mem= required.
>>
>
>
> thanks
>
> any chance to try 32 bit with higemem64 option?
>
> YH
>

My distribution is setup for 64-bit (64bit-clean) only, I do not have a 
32-bit userland, so cannot help here, sorry.

Justin.
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