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From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: limit lowmem_reserve
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 19:02:15 +1000
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On Friday 07 April 2006 16:25, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Con Kolivas wrote:
> > It is possible with a low enough lowmem_reserve ratio to make
> > zone_watermark_ok always fail if the lower_zone is small enough.
>
> I don't see how this would happen?

3GB lowmem and a reserve ratio of 180 is enough to do it.

Cheers,
Con