Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:56:33 -0500 | | From | Theodore Tso <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck | |
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:30:05PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:> As user pages are always in highmem, this should be easy to decide:
> only send SIGDANGER when highmem is full. (Yes, there are
> inodes/dentries/file descriptors in lowmem, but I doubt apps will
> respond to SIGDANGER by closing files).
Good point; for a system with at least (say) 2GB of memory, that
definitely makes sense. For a system with less than 768 megs of
memory (how quaint, but it wasn't that long ago this was a lot of
memory :-), there wouldn't *be* any memory in highmem at all....
- Ted
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