Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:54:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.10 VM: what avoids from having lots of unwriteable inactive pages |
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > What avoids us from having a lot of unfreeable (eg mapped by ptes) pages > on the inactive list ?
Nothing.
If we can't shrink them, we'll fall out and do vmscanning.
Which is exactly what we want to do - it automatically acts as a "uhhuh, we've got to do something now" thing.
The tuning may be way off, of course. If we scan too many pages, we won't fall out early enough..
Linus
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