From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:18:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 - fixing deadlocks In-Reply-To: <20000926010332.G5010@athlon.random> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Rik van Riel , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Ingo Molnar , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > The machine will run low on memory as soon as I read 200mbyte from disk. So? Yes, at that point we'll do the LRU dance. Then we won't be low on memory any more, and we won't do the LRU dance any more. What's the magic in zoneinfo that makes it not have to do the same thing? Linus -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/