From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265833AbUGTNeG (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:34:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265847AbUGTNeG (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:34:06 -0400 Received: from ppp-217-133-42-200.cust-adsl.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:25475 "EHLO x30.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265833AbUGTNeF (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:34:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:29:16 -0400 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Kurt Garloff , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, William Lee Irwin III , Peter Zaitsev , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer) Message-ID: <20040720132916.GA3969@x30.random> References: <1089771823.15336.2461.camel@abyss.home> <20040714031701.GT974@dualathlon.random> <1089776640.15336.2557.camel@abyss.home> <20040713211721.05781fb7.akpm@osdl.org> <1089848823.15336.3895.camel@abyss.home> <20040714154427.14234822.akpm@osdl.org> <1089851451.15336.3962.camel@abyss.home> <20040715015431.GF3411@holomorphy.com> <20040718161338.GC12527@tpkurt.garloff.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040718161338.GC12527@tpkurt.garloff.de> X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 CC A0 71 81 F4 A0 63 AC C0 4B 81 1D 8C 15 C8 E5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:13:38PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: > Any fundamental reason why that should not be possible? of course not, though copying mbytes of data around is expensive, and relocation is a low priority compared to allocating ram in the right place with heavy imbalances.