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Matt Mackall wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:58:44AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: >>Just a fancy way of saying roughly that memory waste will increase as >>the size of the system increases. But that aspect of it I think is >>not really a problem for non-tiny systems anyway because the waste >>tends not to be too bad (and possibly the number of active allocations >>does not increase O(n) with the size of RAM either). > > > If active allocations doesn't increase O(n) with the size of RAM, > what's all that RAM for? > > If your memory isn't getting used for large VMAs or large amounts of > page cache, that means it's getting used by task structs, > radix_tree_nodes, sockets, dentries, inodes, etc. Yeah you could be right. Actually you most likey _are_ right for many workloads. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. - 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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