[Users] Difference in privvmpages accounting between 2.6.8 and 2.6.9-023stab040.1

Ligesh myself at ligesh.com
Sun Feb 25 01:22:00 EST 2007


Hi,

 There seems to be almost double the privvmpages usage displayed in 2.6.9 compared to the same vps running on 2.6.8. Is this change documented somewhere? These are the figures I get:

 barebones centos-4 vps on 2.6.8 kernel shows privvmpages as  (amounts to about 18MB)
 privvmpages        4545       7262      11520      11520          0
 dcachesize        78057      81774 2147483646 2147483646          0

the _same_ vps running on 2.6.9 shows (amounts to 40MB, more than double)
 privvmpages        9491      10752      11520      11520          0
 dcachesize            0          0 2147483646 2147483646          0

 From the above, should I assume that now privvmpages includes dcachesize too?

 Thanks.



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