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From: Octavian Purdila <tavi@cs.pub.ro>
Subject: Re: Memory defragmentor in linux?
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:33:29 +0200
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Cc: Rajat Jain <Rajat.Jain@infogain.com>, linux-newbie@kernel.org

On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Rajat Jain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As the system stays up for longer time, the physical memory becomes
> fragmented (external fragmentation) such that physically continuous pages
> may be difficult to find.Is there any kind of "memory defragmentor"
> mechanism built in linux (Like disk defragmentor) that helps solves such
> issues?
>

Hi Rajat,

See this LWN article:

http://lwn.net/Articles/224829/

Regards,
tavi

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