Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 1998 20:20:12 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [patch] my latest oom stuff |
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On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > I know about get_free_pages() freeing up memory -- > > I put that 'emergency' code in there when kswapd > > couldn't cut it. > > No. It's always been there, since before kswapd even existed.
IIRC it has been absent/not agressive enough in some 1.3/2.0 days, but then again I'd better leave the authorative answer to you :)
damn, this dvorak thing is killing me...
cheers,
Rik -- typing slowly because my kbd is dvorak since sun 19:40... +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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