Re: How to Increase VmallocTotal
ashok shankar das <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:22:35 +0530
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============0125889234== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------080109030209020300050601" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080109030209020300050601 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is defined in kernel code. there was a a way to do it from the command line too. */vmalloc=<size>* /You may try this command line option at boot time. Bill Snapko wrote: > Hello, > > I am using a RedHat Enterprise WS v4 distribution. > > I am looking to increase the value that is displayed by VmallocTotal > using `cat /proc/meminfo`. The value I currently have is > "VmallocTotal: 106488 kB". This is unacceptable for the current > situation. > > On another system using a Fedora Core 3 distribution, the VmallocTotal > value is "VmallocTotal: 3612664 kB". This is what I want. > > Both systems have 1GB RAM installed. The hardware is identical. The > distributions are the difference. > > I have attempted to follow the definition of VMALLOC_START to > ascertain if I could adjust it to get the VmallocTotal to the value I > want. I have been unsuccessful down this path. > > I am looking for a system utility or something to configure to allow > the RHEL 4 system to increase its vmalloc space. I would prefer not to > have to recompile the kernel for this to work. > > > Thank you for your help. > > Bill > > > > > > > > > For limitations on the use and distribution of this message, please > visit www.sbs.com/emaildisclaimer. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-devel-list mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list > -- Thanks Ashok Shankar Das RedHat, Bangalore +91-9341296551 --------------080109030209020300050601 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> This is defined in kernel code. there was a a way to do it from the command line too.<br> *<i>vmalloc=<size>* </i>You may try this command line option at boot time.<br> <br> Bill Snapko wrote: <blockquote cite="mid40F5223FD17DA9489B8205D3B49379B4C8127F@CORPMAIL.sbscorp.sbs.com" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name="GENERATOR"> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"><font face="Arial" size="2">Hello,</font></span></div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"></span> </div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"><font face="Arial" size="2">I am using a RedHat Enterprise WS v4 distribution.</font></span></div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"></span> </div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"><font face="Arial" size="2">I am looking to increase the value that is displayed by VmallocTotal using `cat /proc/meminfo`. The value I currently have is "VmallocTotal: 106488 kB". This is unacceptable for the current situation.</font></span></div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"></span> </div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"><font face="Arial" size="2">On another system using a Fedora Core 3 distribution, the VmallocTotal value is "VmallocTotal: 3612664 kB". This is what I want.</font></span></div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"></span> </div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"><font face="Arial" size="2">Both systems have 1GB RAM installed. The hardware is identical. The distributions are the difference.</font></span></div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"></span> </div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"><font face="Arial" size="2">I have attempted to follow the definition of VMALLOC_START to ascertain if I could adjust it to get the VmallocTotal to the value I want. I have been unsuccessful down this path.</font></span></div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"></span> </div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"><font face="Arial" size="2">I am looking for a system utility or something to configure to allow the RHEL 4 system to increase its vmalloc space. I would prefer not to have to recompile the kernel for this to work.</font></span></div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"></span> </div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"></span> </div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"><font face="Arial" size="2">Thank you for your help.</font></span></div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"></span> </div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"><font face="Arial" size="2">Bill</font></span></div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"></span> </div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"></span> </div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"></span> </div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"></span> </div> <div><span class="202194014-28062006"></span> </div> <div align="left"> </div> <div> </div> <br> For limitations on the use and distribution of this message, please visit <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.sbs.com/emaildisclaimer">www.sbs.com/emaildisclaimer</a>.<br> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list</a></pre> </blockquote> <br> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Thanks Ashok Shankar Das RedHat, Bangalore +91-9341296551 </pre> </body> </html> --------------080109030209020300050601-- --===============0125889234== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list --===============0125889234==--