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From: Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@norran.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH NG] alloc_pages_limit & pages_min
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:52:20 +0200
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On Thursdayen den 23 August 2001 20:44, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Roger Larsson wrote:
> > f we did get one page => we are above pages_min
> > try to reach pages_low too.
>
> Yeah, but WHY ?
>

* Historic reasons - I feel good at that limit... :-)
 MIN the limit never crossed
 LOW center, our target of free pages - when all zones time to free.
 HIGH limit were to stop the freeing.

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Roger Larsson
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