From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77B298D0039 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 09:37:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4D4ABD7F.2060208@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:36:47 -0500 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: too big min_free_kbytes References: <1295841406.1949.953.camel@sli10-conroe> <20110124150033.GB9506@random.random> <20110126141746.GS18984@csn.ul.ie> <20110126152302.GT18984@csn.ul.ie> <20110126154203.GS926@random.random> <20110126163655.GU18984@csn.ul.ie> <20110126174236.GV18984@csn.ul.ie> <20110127134057.GA32039@csn.ul.ie> <20110127152755.GB30919@random.random> <20110203025808.GJ5843@random.random> In-Reply-To: <20110203025808.GJ5843@random.random> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Mel Gorman , Shaohua Li , Andrew Morton , linux-mm , "Chen, Tim C" On 02/02/2011 09:58 PM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Comments welcome, > Thanks! > Andrea > >> ==== >> Subject: vmscan: kswapd must not free more than high_wmark pages NAK I believe we need a little bit of slack above high_wmark_pages, to be able to even out memory pressure between zones. Maybe free up to high_wmark_pages + min_wmark_pages ? -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org