Almost 50% less free memory in joyride-2302 compared with Update.1 (708)

[Martin Langhoff]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Ton van Overbeek <tvoverbeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Noticed the following:
> After booting with all the joyride activities installed and then running top
> on vt2 (no activities running, only journal) joyride-2302 shows 44268k free.
> Booting into 708 with the same set of activities shows 82828k free.
> Is there a 'min amount of free memory' release criterion/goal for 8.2 ???
> It seems OOM situations will occur more often in 8.2 than in 8.1.

Can you use one of the nice smap-summary-listing utilities and prepare
a before-and-after (or a diff if that's workable)? That'll help narrow
down on what's hogging your memory. Reading % memory free from top or
vmstat is not particularly informative, specially in this day and age
when the kernel and modern code do all sorts of COW-type tricks...

This one seems to be one of the nicest ones:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py

cheers,



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