[SOLVED] Re: Re: Problem with kernel image in a Prep Boot on PowerPC

2005-08-25 Thread Márcio Oliveira
John W. Linville wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:52:44PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: The command rdev can change the default root partition on x86 linux systems with pre-built kernels. Of course...I meant I don't know of anything like that for PPC. About the CONFIG_CMDLINE

[SOLVED] Re: Re: Problem with kernel image in a Prep Boot on PowerPC

2005-08-25 Thread Márcio Oliveira
John W. Linville wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:52:44PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: The command rdev can change the default root partition on x86 linux systems with pre-built kernels. Of course...I meant I don't know of anything like that for PPC. About the CONFIG_CMDLINE

Re: Problem with kernel image in a Prep Boot on PowerPC

2005-08-24 Thread Márcio Oliveira
John W. Linville wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:05:25PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: I think the kernel is pointing to the wrong root partiotion. In a x86 box, I can change the kernel root partition in the boot loader (root= parameter) or using the "rdev" command. In my cas

Re: Problem with kernel image in a Prep Boot on PowerPC

2005-08-24 Thread Márcio Oliveira
John W. Linville wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:05:25PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: I think the kernel is pointing to the wrong root partiotion. In a x86 box, I can change the kernel root partition in the boot loader (root= parameter) or using the rdev command. In my case, the IBM

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-25 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Neil Horman wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 10:40:19PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: Neil Horman wrote: On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:16:20PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: Neil, The best way I can think to do that is take a look at /proc/slabinfo

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-25 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Neil Horman wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 10:40:19PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: Neil Horman wrote: On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:16:20PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: Neil, The best way I can think to do that is take a look at /proc/slabinfo

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-24 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Neil Horman wrote: On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:16:20PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: Neil, The best way I can think to do that is take a look at /proc/slabinfo. That will likely give you a pointer to which area of code is eating up your memory. OK. I will monitor the /proc

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-24 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Neil Horman wrote: On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:16:20PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: Neil, The best way I can think to do that is take a look at /proc/slabinfo. That will likely give you a pointer to which area of code is eating up your memory. OK. I will monitor the /proc

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-23 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Neil, The best way I can think to do that is take a look at /proc/slabinfo. That will likely give you a pointer to which area of code is eating up your memory. OK. I will monitor the /proc/slabinfo file. Based on the sysrq-m info you posted it looks like due to fragmentation the largest

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-23 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Neil, The best way I can think to do that is take a look at /proc/slabinfo. That will likely give you a pointer to which area of code is eating up your memory. OK. I will monitor the /proc/slabinfo file. Based on the sysrq-m info you posted it looks like due to fragmentation the largest

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-22 Thread Márcio Oliveira
, this was on an itanium machine, so I don't know if it occurs on other arches, and if it occurs at the same memory limits on the other arches either. Roger -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Márcio Oliveira Sent: Friday, July 22

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-22 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Neil Horman wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:32:52AM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: Neil Horman wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:40:54AM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/rhel3_vm.pdf I wrote this with norm awhile back. It may help you

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-22 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Neil Horman wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:40:54AM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/rhel3_vm.pdf I wrote this with norm awhile back. It may help you out. Regards Neil Neil, Thanks.~10-12GB of total RAM (16GB) are How can Proc virtual

Kernel don't free Cached Memory

2005-07-22 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Hi all! I have a server with 2 Pentium 4 HT processors and 32 GB of RAM, this server runs lots of applications that consume lots of memory to. When I stop this applications, the kernel doesn't free memory (the memory still in use) and the server cache lots of memory (~27GB). When I start

Kernel don't free Cached Memory

2005-07-22 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Hi all! I have a server with 2 Pentium 4 HT processors and 32 GB of RAM, this server runs lots of applications that consume lots of memory to. When I stop this applications, the kernel doesn't free memory (the memory still in use) and the server cache lots of memory (~27GB). When I start

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-22 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Neil Horman wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:40:54AM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/rhel3_vm.pdf I wrote this with norm awhile back. It may help you out. Regards Neil Neil, Thanks.~10-12GB of total RAM (16GB) are How can Proc virtual

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-22 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Neil Horman wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:32:52AM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: Neil Horman wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:40:54AM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/rhel3_vm.pdf I wrote this with norm awhile back. It may help you

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-22 Thread Márcio Oliveira
, this was on an itanium machine, so I don't know if it occurs on other arches, and if it occurs at the same memory limits on the other arches either. Roger -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Márcio Oliveira Sent: Friday, July 22

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-21 Thread Márcio Oliveira
http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/rhel3_vm.pdf I wrote this with norm awhile back. It may help you out. Regards Neil Neil, Thanks.~10-12GB of total RAM (16GB) are How can Proc virtual memory parameters like inactive_clean_percent, overcommit_memory, overcommit_ratio and

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-21 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:23 -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: I'm sure RH support will be able to help you with that; I doubt many other people care about an ancient kernel like that, and a vendor one to boot. (Also I assume you are using

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-21 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:23 -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: I'm sure RH support will be able to help you with that; I doubt many other people care about an ancient kernel like that, and a vendor one to boot. (Also I assume you are using

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-21 Thread Márcio Oliveira
http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/rhel3_vm.pdf I wrote this with norm awhile back. It may help you out. Regards Neil Neil, Thanks.~10-12GB of total RAM (16GB) are How can Proc virtual memory parameters like inactive_clean_percent, overcommit_memory, overcommit_ratio and

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-20 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Arjan van de Ven wrote: I'm sure RH support will be able to help you with that; I doubt many other people care about an ancient kernel like that, and a vendor one to boot. (Also I assume you are using the -hugemem kernel as the documentation recommends you to do) Arjan, I'd like to

Memoy Management

2005-07-20 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Hi all, Somebody can help me with some memory management issues (like Out Of Memory) in Linux kernel 2.4 (with some backports from 2.6 kernel. eg. Red Hat Enterprise Kernel) and SMP machines (4 processors) with a lot of memory (16GB)? Thanks a lot. Márcio. - To unsubscribe from this list:

Memoy Management

2005-07-20 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Hi all, Somebody can help me with some memory management issues (like Out Of Memory) in Linux kernel 2.4 (with some backports from 2.6 kernel. eg. Red Hat Enterprise Kernel) and SMP machines (4 processors) with a lot of memory (16GB)? Thanks a lot. Márcio. - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Memory Management

2005-07-20 Thread Márcio Oliveira
Arjan van de Ven wrote: I'm sure RH support will be able to help you with that; I doubt many other people care about an ancient kernel like that, and a vendor one to boot. (Also I assume you are using the -hugemem kernel as the documentation recommends you to do) Arjan, I'd like to