From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.fys.ruu.nl (max.fys.ruu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA24537 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 16:58:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 21:17:55 +0100 (MET) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: minor patch for 2.1.90 fs/buffer.c In-Reply-To: <35180539.13BA0CD8@star.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Bill Hawes Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-mm List-ID: 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. +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ | Linux: - LinuxHQ MM-patches page | Scouting webmaster | | - kswapd ask-him & complain-to guy | Vries cubscout leader | | http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~riel/ | | +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+