From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:03:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] inactive_clean In-Reply-To: <1150740624.28517.108.camel@lappy> Message-ID: References: <1150719606.28517.83.camel@lappy> <1150740624.28517.108.camel@lappy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , Rohit Seth , Andrew Morton , mbligh@google.com, hugh@veritas.com, riel@redhat.com, andrea@suse.de, arjan@infradead.org, apw@shadowen.org, mel@csn.ul.ie, marcelo@kvack.org, anton@samba.org, paulmck@us.ibm.com, Nick Piggin , linux-mm , Nikita Danilov List-ID: On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > http://linux-mm.org/NetworkStorageDeadlock > > Basically, we want to free memory, but freeing costs more memory than we > currently have available. Freeing of anonymous memory does not cost anythin when the process terminates. You mean free through swapping? The problem is the swap via the network? -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org