On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> I do not think the Linus VM behavior is unreasonable, which basically
> amounts to continually trying to free pages for all order 3 and below
> allocations (if you can sleep and you aren't PF_MEMALLOC etc.).
The only problem is that it doesn't. It won't try to free
pages once you have enough free pages, which means you'll
just end up in a livelock.
Rik
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