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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:00:43 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
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Subject: Good way to free as much memory as possible under 2.5.34?
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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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