Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:25:03 +0200 (EET) | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/3] /dev/low_mem_notify |
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Ronen Hod wrote: > I believe that it will be best if the kernel publishes an ideal > number_of_free_pages (in /proc/meminfo or whatever). Such number is easy to > work with since this is what applications do, they free pages. Applications > will be able to refer to this number from their garbage collector, or before > allocating memory also if they did not get a notification, and it is also > useful if several applications free memory at the same time.
Isn't
/proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
pretty much just that?
Pekka
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