Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Nov 1998 21:20:24 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [2.1.130-3] Page cache DEFINATELY too persistant... feature? |
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On 30 Nov 1998, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
>One other idea I had, was to replace (code at the very beginning of
Hey guy, this idea is mine from ages! ;-)
>do_try_to_free_page()): > > if (buffer_over_borrow() || pgcache_over_borrow()) > shrink_mmap(i, gfp_mask); > >with: > > if (buffer_over_borrow() || pgcache_over_borrow()) > state = 0;
This should be the thing that fixed the problem fine for people (or at least arca-39 fixed it ;). Now I have perfect reports of the arca-39 mm from the guys that sent the mm bug report to linux-kernel. I guess the only interesting thing in my patch for this issue is my change you mentioned above (and that I am using from a lot of time, and since I started hacking the mm myself I never had mm problems anymore btw ;). With the patch above Stephen' s patch is not needed, I don' t know if it can be still helpful though (since I have not read it in details yet).
Andrea Arcangeli
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