Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: mm question | Date | Mon, 10 Dec 2001 18:26:35 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > This makes it rather hard to go around trying to free pages > > within a certain physical range. > > Well, what does kernel do when it runs out of memory ? For example when I > mmap a large file and start reading it back and force ?
It doesn't care which physical page it gets. Processes being freeing up/swapping pages they have mappings to. The map counts hit zero and the page is discarded.
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