From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:50:30 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [rfc] no ZERO_PAGE? Message-Id: <20070404135030.0683fb49.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070404.131111.62667528.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070330024048.GG19407@wotan.suse.de> <20070404033726.GE18507@wotan.suse.de> <20070404.131111.62667528.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: David Miller Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, npiggin@suse.de, hugh@veritas.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, tee@sgi.com, holt@sgi.com, andrea@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:11:11 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > As I understand the patch being considered to remove ZERO_PAGE(), this > kind of core dump will cause a lot of pages to be allocated, probably > eating up a lot of system time as well as memory. Point. Also, what effect will the proposed changes have upon rss reporting, and upon the numbers in /proc/pid/[s]maps? -- 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