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From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@jazzfree.com>
To: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Cc: Jussi Laako <jussi@jlaako.pp.fi>, Marc Mutz <Marc@Mutz.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:55:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001213145522.A118@lightside.2y.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A36A163.3F01277D@jlaako.pp.fi> <3A36ADB8.3CE36940@Mutz.com> <3A36B3E5.CF9FC31D@jlaako.pp.fi> <20001213004119.A779@werewolf.able.es>
In-Reply-To: <20001213004119.A779@werewolf.able.es>; from J . A . Magallon on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:41:19AM +0100

On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:41:19AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> There are various patches-ways-to-do available, kernel gurus are still working
> on it...
> (leave always some 4% of mem for root, kill some process when mem is exhausted,
> which one to kill...)

which is a bad idea;  4% of 1GB is a waste, and 4% of 8mb is really pushing
it (that is, if we are speaking about root just doing cleanup stuff)

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      reply	other threads:[~2000-12-14  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-12 22:06 VM problem (2.4.0-test11) Jussi Laako
2000-12-12 22:59 ` Marc Mutz
2000-12-12 23:25   ` Jussi Laako
2000-12-12 23:41     ` J . A . Magallon
2000-12-13 13:55       ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa [this message]

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