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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	ncunningham@linuxmail.org, cef-lkml@optusnet.com.au,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rob@landley.net, seife@suse.de
Subject: Re: swappiness=0 makes software suspend fail.
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 20:42:00 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40BB0BF8.4040108@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040531030914.0e20d2e0.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> 
>>Right solution is to make sure that shrink_all_memory() works, no
>> matter how swappiness is set.
> 
> 
> off-by-one in balance_pgdat() was the main problem.
> 

I think it might be intentional, because 1/2 + 1/4 + ... + 1/4096 ~ 1.

If so, it instead needs fixing in try_to_free_pages, and a comment.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-31 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-28  5:00 swappiness=0 makes software suspend fail Rob Landley
2004-05-28 21:56 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-29  7:48   ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-05-29  9:05   ` Stuart Young
2004-05-29  8:56     ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-05-29 22:23       ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-31 10:09         ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-31 10:42           ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-05-31 10:17         ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-31 11:38           ` Rob Landley
2004-05-31 11:52             ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-01 10:46               ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-06-03 12:08                 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-31 22:57             ` Flavio Stanchina
2004-06-04 12:20               ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-31 11:50           ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-31 19:07             ` Stefan Seyfried
2004-05-29 22:36       ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-30  2:21         ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-30 19:47           ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-30 23:23             ` Oliver Neukum
2004-05-31  3:28               ` Rob Landley
2004-05-31  6:18             ` Stuart Young
2004-05-31  8:41               ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-29 11:35     ` Pavel Machek

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