Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:48:36 +0000 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.>=13 VM/kswapd/shmem/Oracle issue (was Re: Google's mm problems) |
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> loop that can trigger with the -ac VM when all the ZONE_DMA is > unfreeable (now fixed in mainline with classzone) have nothing to do
Ok I think I've misunderstood classzone then. As I understand it, it prevents looping in ZONE_NORMAL when ZONE_DMA has memory free, and looping in ZONE_HIGHMEM if ZONE_NORMAL or ZONE_DMA have memory free. Can you please explain how it also solves the ZONE_DMA problem ?
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