Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:10:33 -0700 | | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | | Subject | Re: How to get a sense of VM pressure |
Nick Piggin wrote:
> A good start would be to register a "shrinker" (look at dcache or inode
> cache for examples). Start off by allocating pages, and slow down or
> stop or even release some of the pages back as you start getting feedback
> back through your shrinker callback.
>
> Not perfect, but it should prevent livelocks.
>
Thanks, that's a good starting place.
J
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