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SubjectRe: 2.1.110 freepages.min change
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

> On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > But didn't your calculations from a few days ago show that
> > you'd need at least 5% of free memory to be reasonably
> > certain to have a contiguous 8kB region free.
>
> Yes. And that was also what convinced me that we need some other mechanism
> to get that - thus the changes in arch/i386/kernel/process.c..

That still does not solve the problem with 8k NFS (which effectively
needs 16K blocks)

-Andi

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