Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:27:15 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache |
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:03:23 +1100 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > Yeah, it will be failing at order=4, because the allocator won't try > very hard reclaim pagecache pages at that cutoff point. This needs to > be fixed in the allocator.
A simple and perhaps sufficient fix for this nommu problem would be to replace the magic "3" in __alloc_pages() with a tunable. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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