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Subject: Re: How to get a sense of VM pressure
From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 14:25 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Google I think and maybe IBM (can't remember) is using the proc pagemap
> interfaces to help with this. Probably it is super secret code that can't
> be released though -- but it gives you somewhere to look.

Nobody at IBM that I know. :)  I have other nefarious purposes for it,
but not for memory pressure.

-- Dave