Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:29:28 -0800 (PST) | | From | david@lang ... | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck | |
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Theodore Tso wrote:
> 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....
not to mention machines with 1G of ram (900M lowmem, 128M highmem)
David Lang
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