From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 21:14:16 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap_state.c thinko Message-ID: <20010406211416.B785@athlon.random> References: <20010406204713.P28118@athlon.random> <20010406210908.A785@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010406210908.A785@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:09:08PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ben LaHaise , Rik van Riel , Richard Jerrrell , Stephen Tweedie , arjanv@redhat.com, alan@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/