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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:27:22 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kswapd shall not sleep during page shortage
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Andrew Morton wrote:

>Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
>
>>Make sense?
>>
>
>Hey, you know me - I'll believe anything.
>
>Let's take a second look at the numbers when you have a patch.  Please
>check that we're printing all the relevant info at boot time.
>
>

OK... I'll actually go the other way - really quadruple min_free_kbytes,
and squash the top watermarks down, rather than the bottom ones up. This
way min_free_kbytes should retain its semantics. I've got a patch I'll
test now...

Also, what info do you want at boot time?

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