Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:38:23 +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 22:22, Nick Piggin wrote: >
>> >>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. > > > Surely it would be able to rearrange pages to get a contiguous megabyte?
For lots of stuff it is just infeasable. Just about all kernel memory, for example.
But yeah, regardless, really the best thing is not to use such large allocations at all. - 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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