Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:29:28 -0800 (PST) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck |
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:30:05PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: >> >> As user pages are always in highmem, this should be easy to decide: >> only send SIGDANGER when highmem is full. (Yes, there are >> inodes/dentries/file descriptors in lowmem, but I doubt apps will >> respond to SIGDANGER by closing files). > > Good point; for a system with at least (say) 2GB of memory, that > definitely makes sense. For a system with less than 768 megs of > memory (how quaint, but it wasn't that long ago this was a lot of > memory :-), there wouldn't *be* any memory in highmem at all....
not to mention machines with 1G of ram (900M lowmem, 128M highmem)
David Lang
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