From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Con Kolivas Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: limit lowmem_reserve Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 10:15:44 +1000 References: <200604021401.13331.kernel@kolivas.org> <200604071902.16011.kernel@kolivas.org> <44365DC2.1010806@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <44365DC2.1010806@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604081015.44771.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrew Morton , ck@vds.kolivas.org, linux list , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Friday 07 April 2006 22:40, Nick Piggin wrote: > Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Friday 07 April 2006 16:25, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>Con Kolivas wrote: > >>>It is possible with a low enough lowmem_reserve ratio to make > >>>zone_watermark_ok always fail if the lower_zone is small enough. > >> > >>I don't see how this would happen? > > > > 3GB lowmem and a reserve ratio of 180 is enough to do it. > > How would zone_watermark_ok always fail though? Withdrew this patch a while back; ignore -- -ck -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org