Re: CONFIG_BIGMEM and rawio

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:32:42 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

>Right now 2.3.16's kswapd doesn't check what kinds of memory are free.

Wrong. It only frees the regular memory.

>If we have a lot of free high-memory pages and no low-memory space free,
>then kswapd will stand idly by while the network layers are starved of
>memory. That's a _bad_ bug in the bigmem as it stands. I'll fix this

The bug is not present.

>next week if you aren't already working on it.

Read line 500 of vmscan.c in 2.3.16.

Andrea

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