Re: the new VMt

Alan Cox
2000-09-25T16:53:45Z

> Frankly, how often do we allocate multi-order pages? I've just made quick
> statistics wrt. how allocation orders are distributed on a more or less
> typical system:

Enough that failures on this crashed older 2.2 kernels because the tcp code
ended up looping trying to get memory and the slab allocator couldnt get
a new multipage block.

Alan