Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:38:36 +0200 | Subject | Re: [NEW]: Introducing shrink_all_memory from user space | From | richard -rw- weinberger <> |
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On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:47 AM, PINTU KUMAR <pintu_agarwal@yahoo.com> wrote: > Please provide your valuable feedback and suggestion.
This is fundamentally flawed. You're assuming that only one program will use this interface. Linux is a multi/user-tasking system
If we expose it to user space *every* program/user will try too free memory such that it can use more. Can you see the problem?
-- Thanks, //richard
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