Re: 2.1.110 freepages.min change

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 14:59:08 -0700 (PDT)

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On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> But didn't your calculations from a few days ago show that
> you'd need at least 5% of free memory to be reasonably
> certain to have a contiguous 8kB region free.

Yes. And that was also what convinced me that we need some other mechanism
to get that - thus the changes in arch/i386/kernel/process.c..

Linus

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