From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:10:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] inactive_clean In-Reply-To: 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: Christoph Lameter Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , Rohit Seth , Andrew Morton , mbligh@google.com, hugh@veritas.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, Christoph Lameter wrote: > 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? Not only swap. Writable MAP_SHARED mmap has the same problem... -- All Rights Reversed -- 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