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SubjectRe: [NEW]: Introducing shrink_all_memory from user space
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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?

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Thanks,
//richard


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