Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:56:33 -0500 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck |
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:30:05PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > As user pages are always in highmem, this should be easy to decide: > only send SIGDANGER when highmem is full. (Yes, there are > inodes/dentries/file descriptors in lowmem, but I doubt apps will > respond to SIGDANGER by closing files).
Good point; for a system with at least (say) 2GB of memory, that definitely makes sense. For a system with less than 768 megs of memory (how quaint, but it wasn't that long ago this was a lot of memory :-), there wouldn't *be* any memory in highmem at all....
- Ted
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