Re: the new VMt

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:10:07PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Not really. We could fix this by making the page freeing
> functions smarter and only free the pages we need.

That's what I proposed in first place infact.

To free large chunk of memory you may have to throw away lots of cache. We're
not freeing contigous cache as we do in 2.2.x.

Andrea
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