Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jul 2004 06:53:08 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer) |
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On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:13:38PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: >> Any fundamental reason why that should not be possible?
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:29:16AM -0400, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > of course not, though copying mbytes of data around is expensive, and > relocation is a low priority compared to allocating ram in the right > place with heavy imbalances.
The bias is good to have also; when it's possible correctly place things in advance I like to see that happen. Gracefully recovering if/when that doesn't work out is all I'd like to have beyond that.
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