On 12/14/07, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:09:43AM -0800, Rhoads, Rob wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm doing memory consumption research as well at the moment; > > > I would be > > > interested in learning more about the scripts (no need to investigate > > > *releasing* them at this point): are you investigating > > > individual apps? > > > The whole system? How are you blaming memory to libs versus > > > programs? > > > > > > > It's pretty simple. We're looking at total platform memory consumption to > > see when the target device runs out of physical memory under a specific > > workload with a certain amount of RAM size. This is done by enabling swap > > running the workload and recording the number of swaps to disk. Workloads > > consist of running the web browser or media player. We're trying to see > > under what workloads 256-MB or 512-MB isn't enough. > > Are you changing the kernel tunables? If not, won't swap start to be used > before the system runs out of physical memory?
Good point. The default value of 60 for /proc/sys/vm/swappiness will make swap kick-in before the system runs out of physical RAM. Setting it to 0 will give a more accurate result. Regards, Amit -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
