| Date | Fri, 25 Jun 2004 04:39:36 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [discuss] Re: 32-bit dma allocations on 64-bit platforms |
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:09:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > this sort of thing, simply because nobody seems to be hitting the problems.
nobody is hitting the problems because if this problem triggers the machine starts slowly swapping and shrinking the vfs and it eventually relocate the highmem. the crpilling down of the vfs caches as well isn't a good thing and it will not be noticeable by anybody.
If they would be truly running without swap they would be hitting these problems very fast. But everybody has swap. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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