From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266498AbUIYNi2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Sep 2004 09:38:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269324AbUIYNi2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Sep 2004 09:38:28 -0400 Received: from smtp202.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.92]:51072 "HELO smtp202.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266498AbUIYNi1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Sep 2004 09:38:27 -0400 Message-ID: <415574CF.9050505@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:38:23 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Debian/1.7.2-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ncunningham@linuxmail.org CC: Kevin Fenzi , Pavel Machek , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 swsusp bug report. References: <20040924021956.98FB5A315A@voldemort.scrye.com> <20040924143714.GA826@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <20040924210958.A3C5AA2073@voldemort.scrye.com> <1096069216.3591.16.camel@desktop.cunninghams> <20040925014546.200828E71E@voldemort.scrye.com> <1096113235.5937.3.camel@desktop.cunninghams> <415562FE.3080709@yahoo.com.au> <1096117005.5937.21.camel@desktop.cunninghams> In-Reply-To: <1096117005.5937.21.camel@desktop.cunninghams> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.