From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965102AbWHOP77 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:59:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965256AbWHOP77 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:59:59 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]:43650 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965102AbWHOP77 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:59:59 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dv5oMGNONcwzpOrWCyyK7YPXXnVjFMppLDqFjcSdIlfczV6mvk2bb2fF3gHeHyhZDVLMY1aXu8iqtSeikmti2NdfLwhvKS2y7ri7cypia7HXOQD85TC7weVWNJAkfZ8LvrLcYdDs2P8WOSOMgLSAkhBtwLqETZDE+ZIxlRUVEQU= Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:59:33 +0200 From: Diego Calleja To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hugh@veritas.com, akpm@osdl.org, dmccr@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: Shared page tables patch... some results Message-Id: <20060815175933.3e284567.diegocg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1155638047.3011.96.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <1155638047.3011.96.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.6 (GTK+ 2.8.18; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org El Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:34:07 +0200, Arjan van de Ven escribió: > Just booting into runlevel 5 and logging into gnome (without starting > any apps) gets a sharing of 1284 pte pages! This means that five > megabytes (!!) of memory is saved, and countless pagefaults are avoided. It's possible to get the patch to test it? (saving memory is one of those things that makes people want to try patches ;) It'd be interesting to see how this affects to other (mine) environments.