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Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:40:04PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > + *	min_free_kbytes = lowmem_kbytes / sqrt(lowmem_kbytes)
> 
>  you do have a strange sqrt here ;)

You're the fifth person to tell me that.  Is this linux-kernel or linux-math?

Turns out that the int_sqrt() I stole from oom-kill.c appears to get wrong
numbers anyway.  I'll probably steal fb_sqrt(), which appears to get
correct numbers and consolidate it all...