Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:07:27 +0200 (MEST) | From | Hubert Mantel <> | Subject | Re: buffers vs. pages vs. kernel speed |
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Hello,
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, David S. Miller wrote:
> Let's try this one... this has: > > 1) buffer cache clean buffer out of memory fixes > 2) handle multi-page allocations in low memory situations > (sans GFP_ATOMIC) more gracefully > 3) Matthias's state machine fix > 4) Debugging code added to try_to_free_page() for when it fails > > I ran a kernel compile in 3mb of ram on a Sparc (which makes the > machine useless, _very_ useless) and as far as it got (I let it run > for a day, I wasn't going to let it finish) it did not allow one > try_to_free_page() to fail, not once.
With this patch on a pre-2.0.31-2 Kernel I tried to create the 1Gig filesystem on a 4MB machine. Until now I tried it three times and it failed twice ;-(
Hubert mantel@suse.de
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