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    > > This makes it rather hard to go around trying to free pages
    > > within a certain physical range.
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    > 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.

    Alan
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