Subject: Re: The problem with large pages
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Ian Fry <Ian.Fry@sophos.com>
List: port-arm26
Date: 08/22/2001 14:01:14
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 09:18:33PM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> # vmstat -m | tail -1
> In use 69K, total allocated 832K; utilization 8.3%
:-(
> Admittedly, that's in single-user mode, but it's still something to worry
> about, especially since that's just memory handled by the pool allocator
> (I'm building a KMEMSTATS kernel now).
Presumably this is why 2M of free memory when the kernel starts isn't enough
to boot multi-user on a 4M machine at the moment?
> Something Must Be Done.
Has anything been done yet? I saw your posting about the sub-pool allocator
recently, but has that got any further?
Ian.