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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: pte-highmem-5
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:31:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u1tll6pb.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020116185814.I22791@athlon.random>
In-Reply-To: <20020116185814.I22791@athlon.random> (Andrea Arcangeli's message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:58:14 +0100")

Hi Andrea,

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> They were running out of pagetables, mapping 1G per-task (shm for
> example) will overflow the lowmem zone with PAE with some houndred
> tasks in the system. They were pointing the finger at the VM but the
> VM was just doing the very right thing to do.

This lets me think about putting the swap vector of shmem into highmem
also. These can get big on highend servers and exactly these servers
tend to use a lot of shared mem.

What do you think?

		Christoph



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-17  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-16 17:58 pte-highmem-5 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-16 18:04 ` pte-highmem-5 Linus Torvalds
2002-01-16 18:35   ` pte-highmem-5 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-16 18:19 ` pte-highmem-5 Linus Torvalds
2002-01-16 18:48   ` pte-highmem-5 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-16 19:11     ` pte-highmem-5 Linus Torvalds
2002-01-16 19:30       ` pte-highmem-5 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-16 19:30   ` pte-highmem-5 Benjamin LaHaise
2002-01-16 19:50     ` pte-highmem-5 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-16 19:34   ` pte-highmem-5 Rik van Riel
2002-01-17  8:31 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2002-01-17 12:14   ` pte-highmem-5 Hugh Dickins
2002-01-17 15:45     ` pte-highmem-5 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-17 16:08       ` pte-highmem-5 Hugh Dickins
2002-01-17 15:30   ` pte-highmem-5 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-17 16:11     ` pte-highmem-5 Christoph Rohland
2002-01-17 16:37       ` pte-highmem-5 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-17 17:31       ` pte-highmem-5 Rik van Riel
2002-01-17 17:57 ` pte-highmem-5 Hugh Dickins
2002-01-17 18:09   ` pte-highmem-5 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-17 19:02     ` pte-highmem-5 Hugh Dickins
2002-01-18  2:38       ` pte-highmem-5 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-19 20:56         ` pte-highmem-5 Hugh Dickins
2002-01-21 18:15           ` pte-highmem-5 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-22 18:01             ` pte-highmem-5 Hugh Dickins
2002-01-22 19:10               ` pte-highmem-5 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-22 21:41                 ` pte-highmem-5 Hugh Dickins
2002-01-22 23:34                   ` pte-highmem-5 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-23  0:56                     ` pte-highmem-5 Paul Mackerras
2002-01-23  1:27                       ` pte-highmem-5 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-23  5:38                     ` pte-highmem-5 Hugh Dickins
2002-01-23 16:29                       ` pte-highmem-5 Daniel Phillips
2002-01-23 20:23                         ` pte-highmem-5 Hugh Dickins
2002-01-24  3:09                       ` pte-highmem-5 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-24 15:35                         ` pte-highmem-5 Hugh Dickins
2002-01-22 19:29             ` pre4aa1 contig kmaps patch Hugh Dickins
2002-01-23 13:31               ` rwhron

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