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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Good way to free as much memory as possible under 2.5.34?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:00:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020913210042.GA25464@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)

Hi!

/*
 * Try to free as much memory as possible, but do not OOM-kill anyone
 *
 * Notice: all userland should be stopped at this point, or livelock
is possible.
 */

This worked before -rmap came in, but it does not free anything
now. What needs to be done to fix it?

								Pavel 

static void free_some_memory(void)
{
        printk("Freeing memory: ");
        while
(try_to_free_pages(&contig_page_data.node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM], GFP_KSWAPD, 0))
                printk(".");
        printk("|\n");
}

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             reply	other threads:[~2002-09-13 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-13 21:00 Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-09-13 21:09 ` Good way to free as much memory as possible under 2.5.34? Rik van Riel
2002-09-13 21:29   ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-13 21:33     ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-13 21:48       ` Xavier Bestel
2002-09-13 22:42         ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-13 23:26           ` Xavier Bestel
2002-09-13 21:53       ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-13 22:10         ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-14 10:05         ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-14 13:57           ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-14 14:51       ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2002-09-14 15:07         ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-14 15:11           ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-13 21:30   ` Andrew Morton

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