On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:55:17 +0100 "Daniel Spång" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The notification fires after only ~100 MB allocated, i.e., when page > reclaim is beginning to nag from page cache. Isn't this a bit early? > Repeating the test with swap enabled results in a notification after > ~600 MB allocated, which is more reasonable and just before the system > starts to swap. Your issue may have more to do with the fact that the highmem zone is 128MB in size and some balancing issues between __alloc_pages and try_to_free_pages. -- All rights reversed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
