On 08/09/2012 03:20 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote > I also wonder if you have anything else unusual in your > test setup, such as a fast swap disk (mine is a partition > on the same rotating disk as source and target of the kernel build, > the default install for a RHEL6 system)?
I'm using a normal SATA HDD with two partitions, one for swap and the other an ext3 filesystem with the kernel source. > Or have you disabled cleancache? Yes, I _did_ disable cleancache. I could see where having cleancache enabled could explain the difference in results. > Or have you changed any sysfs parameters or > other kernel files? No. > And are you using 512M of physical memory or relying on > kernel boot parameters to reduce visible memory Limited with mem=512M boot parameter. > ... and > if the latter have you confirmed with /proc/meminfo? Yes, confirmed. Seth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
