Hi,
On Saturday 23 June 2007, Carlo Wood wrote:
> PS I'd like to do extensive testing with Bonnie++ to tune everything
> there is to tune. But bonnie likes to write/read files TWICE the amount
> of RAM I have. It therefore takes a LOT of time to run one test. Do you
> happen to know how I can limit the amount of RAM that the linux kernel
> sees to, say 500 MB? That should be enough to run in Single User mode
> but allow me to run the tests MUCH faster. (I have dual channel, four
> DIMM's of 1 GB each -- 2 GB per Core 2 die. Hopefully the fact that
> I have dual channel isn't going to be a problem when limiting the ram
> that the kernel sees.)
"mem=" kernel parameter limits amount of memory seen by kernel
(more info in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt)
You can also limit amount of RAM detected by bonnie++ by using -r parameter
but please remember that this will make bonnie++ benchmark combined kernel
I/O buffering + filesystem + hard disk performance instead of just filesystem
+ hard disk performance (as it can happen that some / all data won't ever
hit the disk).
Bart
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