Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 25 Sep 2004 22:22:22 +1000 | | From | Nick Piggin <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 swsusp bug report. |
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Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 11:45, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>What causes memory to be so fragmented? > > > Normal usage; the pattern of pages being freed and allocated inevitably > leads to fragmentation. The buddy allocator does a good job of > minimising it, but what is really needed is a run-time defragmenter. I > saw mention of this recently, but it's probably not that practical to > implement IMHO. >
Well, by this stage it looks like memory is already pretty well shrunk as much as it is going to be, which means that even a pretty capable defragmenter won't be able to do anything. - 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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