Re: Stability (2.2.14/15/16/17pre1)

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 17:38:15 EST

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> >In practice, however, things seem to behave differently...
>
> As well as increasing freepages.min.

Ahh, but this will waste memory when the system is under less
memory load. The free_before_allocate idea will keep more free
memory when the system is doing more allocations, but will still
use all available memory when the number of allocations per second
is low enough that kswapd can keep up ...

regards,

Rik 

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