On 2011-04-13, David Goodenough <david.goodeno...@btconnect.com> wrote: > I am surprised at this. I have several boxes which are small single board > computers with solid state disks (MIDE or CF), so as I did not need swap > space (the running set is fixed and the memory requirement was within > the total available memory, I did not define any swap space. A few days > ago I needed to move one of the boxes I noted its uptime at 594 days just > before I switched it off. I grant you that it has 256MB of memory, and > 120MB is currently free, but I have not noticed any problems growing over > the time it was up. Maybe it just did not need to make any large physically > contiguous allocations.
Given that Linux does paging, you normally don't need large physically contiguous allocations. I think the exceptions are mainly I/O regions for DMA. And you're probably not using that heavily on such a machine. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrniqbfk4.rnn.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de