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  • Re: the new VMt · Alan Cox <hidden> · 2000-09-25

Re: the new VMt

From: Alan Cox <hidden>
Date: 2000-09-25 16:51:49

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2 active processes, no swap

#1					#2
kmalloc 32K				kmalloc 16K
OK					OK
kmalloc 16K				kmalloc 32K
block					block
... and we get two wakeup_kswapd()s.  kswapd has PF_MEMALLOC and so is
able to eat memory which processes #1 and #2 are not allowed to touch.
'no swap'

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