Re: Free vs Unused pages?

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:57:49 -0400

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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> No, it uses the buddy system bitmaps, and depends on the fact that you
> always release the same order as you allocated.
>
> So to really see what's free or not, you have to look at the bitmaps in
> addition to the page counts.. Maybe somebody can come up with a good way
> of doing all this, I certainly can't think of anything offhand,

Thanks, I'll study the allocator and try using the bitmaps.

Regards,
Bill

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