Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:34:34 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Maybe a VM bug in 2.4.18-18 from RH 8.0? |
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > ... > He may still suffer other known problems besides > the above two critical highmem fixes (for example if > lower_zone_reserve_ratio is not applied and there's no other fix around > it IMHO, that's generic OS problem not only for linux, and that was my > only sensible solution to fix it, the approch in mainline is way too > weak to make a real difference)
argh. I hate that one ;) Giving away 100 megabytes of memory hurts.
I've never been able to find the workload which makes this necessary. Can you please describe an "exploit" against 2.4.20 which demonstrates the need for this?
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