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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 22:13:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: 7-4 VM killing (A solution)
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To: Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan <ananth@sgi.com>
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On Thu, 4 May 2000, Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan wrote:
> 
> Ok, I may have a solution after having asked, mostly to myself,
> why doesn't shrink_mmap() find pages to free?
> 
> The answer apparenlty is because in 7-4 shrink_mmap(),
> unreferenced pages get filed as "young" if the zone has
> enough pages in it (free_pages > pages_high).

Good catch.

That's obviously a bug, and your fix looks like the obvious fix. Thanks,

		Linus

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