Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: the new VMt | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:53:45 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Frankly, how often do we allocate multi-order pages? I've just made quick > statistics wrt. how allocation orders are distributed on a more or less > typical system:
Enough that failures on this crashed older 2.2 kernels because the tcp code ended up looping trying to get memory and the slab allocator couldnt get a new multipage block.
Alan
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