Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Dec 2005 10:04:07 +0800 | From | Wu Fengguang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/12] mm: supporting variables and functions for balanced zone aging |
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:30:15PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > But lines 865-866 together with line 846 make most shrink_zone() invocations > > only run one batch of scan. The numbers become: > > True. Need to go into a huddle with the changelogs, but I have a feeling > that lines 865 and 866 aren't very important. What happens if we remove > them?
Maybe the answer is: can we accept to free 15M memory at one time for a 64G zone? (Or can we simply increase the DEF_PRIORITY?)
btw, maybe it's time to lower the low_mem_reserve. There should be no need to keep ~50M free memory with the balancing patch.
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