Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.1.110 freepages.min change | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 23 Jul 1998 03:13:38 +0200 |
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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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