From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Subject: Re: the new VMt
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:51:49 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <20000925164249.G2615@redhat.com> from "Stephen C. Tweedie" at Sep 25, 2000 04:42:49 PM
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> > 2 active processes, no swap
> > 
> > #1					#2
> > kmalloc 32K				kmalloc 16K
> > OK					OK
> > kmalloc 16K				kmalloc 32K
> > block					block
> > 
> 
> ... and we get two wakeup_kswapd()s.  kswapd has PF_MEMALLOC and so is
> able to eat memory which processes #1 and #2 are not allowed to touch.

'no swap'

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