Hi Ranko! On Apr 4, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Ranko Zivojnovic wrote:
Well, I'm by no means a VM expert (not even a regular kernel hacker), but it seems to me that the sum of LowTotal and VmallocTotal is rather constant for the different settings. Alas, I cannot offer an explanation why this should be, so hopefully a knowledgeable person will shed some light on this issue.(please do CC replies as I am still not on the list) As I am kind of pressured to resolve this issue, I've set up a test environment using VMWare in order to reproduce the problem and (un)fortunately the attempt was successful. I have noticed a few points that relate to the size of the physical RAM and the behavior vmalloc. As I am not sure if this is by design or a bug, so please someone enlighten me: The strange thing I have seen is that with the increase of the physical RAM, the VmallocTotal in the /proc/meminfo gets smaller! Is this how it is supposed to be?
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