Re: [PATCH] [0/16] POISON: Intro

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Wed Apr 08 2009 - 13:30:25 EST


> [1] I didn't consider that one high priority since production
> systems with long uptime shouldn't have much free memory.

Surely there are windows after a big job exits where lots of memory
might be free. Not sure how big those windows are in practice but it
does seem if a process using 128GB exits then it might take a while
before that memory all gets used again.

- R.
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