Michael Fischer wrote: > i have a Linuxppc Kernel 2.4.8 pre 4 running on a motorola asd8260 board > (16M ram). When using initrd and ramdisk to boot the system i run into out > of memory problems. > proc/meminfo shows: > > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 14958592 12062720 2895872 7421952 6656000 2191360 > Swap: 0 0 0 > MemTotal: 14608 kB > MemFree: 2828 kB > MemShared: 7248 kB > Buffers: 6500 kB > Cached: 2140 kB > Active: 8640 kB > Inact_dirty: 0 kB > Inact_clean: 0 kB > Inact_target: 12 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 14608 kB > LowFree: 2828 kB > SwapTotal: 0 kB > SwapFree: 0 kB > > is it really necessary to have so many buffers allocated and if not, how can > i change the amount?
How big is you ramdisk? That's included in the buffers. -- Joe Green <jgreen at mvista.com> MontaVista Software, Inc. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
