From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: ncunningham@linuxmail.org
Cc: Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 swsusp bug report.
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:38:23 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <415574CF.9050505@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096117005.5937.21.camel@desktop.cunninghams>
Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 22:22, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>
>>Well, by this stage it looks like memory is already pretty well shrunk
>>as much as it is going to be, which means that even a pretty capable
>>defragmenter won't be able to do anything.
>
>
> Surely it would be able to rearrange pages to get a contiguous megabyte?
For lots of stuff it is just infeasable. Just about all kernel memory,
for example.
But yeah, regardless, really the best thing is not to use such large
allocations at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-25 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-24 2:19 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 swsusp bug report Kevin Fenzi
2004-09-24 14:37 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-24 21:09 ` Kevin Fenzi
2004-09-24 23:40 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-25 1:45 ` Kevin Fenzi
2004-09-25 11:53 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-25 12:22 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-25 12:56 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-25 13:21 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-25 12:56 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-25 13:38 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-09-25 13:03 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-25 15:45 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-25 22:03 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-26 10:04 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-26 21:59 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-26 22:43 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-27 10:12 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-09-26 16:18 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-26 18:39 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-25 10:15 ` Pavel Machek
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[not found] ` <2I5b2-88s-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <2I5E5-6h-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <2I7Zd-1TK-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-25 1:05 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-09-25 10:16 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-10 18:17 ` Jan Rychter
2004-10-11 13:32 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 14:53 ` Jan Rychter
2004-10-17 19:10 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-17 21:40 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-10-11 9:56 ` Stefan Seyfried
2004-10-11 14:59 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 17:18 ` Stefan Seyfried
2004-10-11 19:58 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-10-12 8:55 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-13 17:29 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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