* Re: minor patch for 2.1.90 fs/buffer.c
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@ 1998-03-24 20:17 ` Rik van Riel
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From: Rik van Riel @ 1998-03-24 20:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bill Hawes; +Cc: Linus Torvalds, linux-mm
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Bill Hawes wrote:
> allocation would be required. (I recently observed a machine with 500M of RAM,
> heavily swapping, but with only 360 buffers, so this situation can occur.)
Indeed, you're completely right... I've noticed something like
this as well, although not as severe.
But maybe we should _limit_ the second-round allocation to
something less than half of the needed buffermem (say, 1/4th).
Rik.
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