Re: [PATCH] vm-fix-all_zones_ok (was Re: 2.6.3-mm3)

Rik van Riel
2004-02-24T22:44:29Z

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > I guess highmem allocations really should put some pressure on
> > lowmem, even when there is enough lowmem free, because otherwise
> > you end up effectively not using half of the memory on 1.5-2 GB
> > systems for paging ...
>
> Yup. With the current -mm patches the reclaim rate from lowmem and highmem
> is nicely proportional to each zone's size for pagecache-heavy workloads.
> For lowmem-intensive workloads the reclaim rate from lowmem is higher, as
> one would expect. It seems to be working OK now.

OK, that should do the trick.

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