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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	Richard Jerrrell <jerrell@missioncriticallinux.com>,
	Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>,
	arjanv@redhat.com, alan@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap_state.c thinko
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 21:14:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010406211416.B785@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010406210908.A785@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:09:08PM +0200

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:09:08PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> We always overstimate anyways, we have to because we don't have information
> about the really freeable memory (think at the buffer cache pinned in the

ah, and btw, even if we would have information about the really freeable memory
in the cache and swap cache that would still useless in real life because we
don't reserve memory for the previous malloc calls (endless overcommit
discussion), so allocation could still fail during page fault and process will
have to be killed the linux way.

Andrea
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-06 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-05 15:56 Ben LaHaise
2001-04-05 16:05 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-05 17:11   ` Ben LaHaise
2001-04-05 23:40     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06  0:32     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 16:31       ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 17:21         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 18:23           ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 18:57             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 19:06               ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-06 18:47           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 18:37             ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 19:09               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 18:53                 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 19:14                 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-04-06 19:03                   ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 20:03                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 19:12               ` Richard Jerrell
2001-04-06 19:52               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 20:22                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 21:04                   ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-07  1:27                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-09 18:16                   ` Alan Cox
2001-04-09 18:45                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-09 20:32                     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-09 20:54                       ` David L. Parsley
2001-04-10 21:07                       ` James Antill
2001-04-10 22:20                         ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-06 20:48                 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-05 17:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-05 21:39   ` Richard Jerrell
2001-04-06 20:20 Bulent Abali
2001-04-06 20:33 ` Jeff Garzik

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