Zhao Xiaoming wrote: > The latest update: > It seems that Linux kernel memory management mechanisms including > buddy and slab algorisms are not very efficient under my test > conditions that tcp stack requires a lot of (hundreds of MB) packet > buffers and release them very frequently. > Here is the proof. After change my kernel configuration to support > 2/2 VM splition, LOMEM consumption reduced to 270M bytes compared with > 640M bytes of the 1/3 kernel. All test conditions are the same and > memory pages allocated by TCP stack are also the same, 34K ~ 38K > pages. In other words, 'lost' memory changed from ~500M to ~130M. > Thus, I have nothing to do but guessing the much more free pages make > the slab/buddy algorisms more efficient and waste less memory. I kind of agree, and always compile for a 2G/2G VM split, as this also seems to affect certain OOM conditions positively. What isn't quite clear though, why is the 2G/2G VM split not the default? Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
