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Subject: Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 11:50 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for looking into this.
> 
> On 15 Sep 2007, at 11:08, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 08:27 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> >
> > Please, don't word wrap log-files, they're hard enough to read without
> > it :-(
> >
> > ( I see people do this more and more often, *WHY*? is that because we
> > like 80 char lines, in code and email? )
> 
> I haven't word wrapped it at all.  The lines appear as whole lines in  
> Apple Mail (my email client).  It must be your email client that is  
> wrapping them...
> 
> > Anyway, looks like all of zone_normal is pinned in kernel allocations:
> >
> >> Sep 13 15:31:25 escabot Normal free:3648kB min:3744kB low:4680kB  
> >> high: 5616kB active:0kB inactive:3160kB present:894080kB  
> >> pages_scanned:5336 all_unreclaimable? yes
> >

Oddly, this line is still long in Andrew's reply but wrapped in yours.
Must be some odd mailer interaction.

/me apologises.

I guess I really have to start looking for a hackable GUI email client
that has semi proper IMAP support.