From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39EA25F0001 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:29:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Roland Dreier Subject: Re: [PATCH] [0/16] POISON: Intro References: <20090407509.382219156@firstfloor.org> <20090407221542.91cd3c42.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090408061539.GD17934@one.firstfloor.org> Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:29:34 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20090408061539.GD17934@one.firstfloor.org> (Andi Kleen's message of "Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:15:39 +0200") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org List-ID: > [1] I didn't consider that one high priority since production > systems with long uptime shouldn't have much free memory. Surely there are windows after a big job exits where lots of memory might be free. Not sure how big those windows are in practice but it does seem if a process using 128GB exits then it might take a while before that memory all gets used again. - R. -- 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