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On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:53:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> So I suggest you do something local for the while, plan to use that later.
> (Actually, the implementation would probably have a heart attack if you
> asked for 100,000 pages so you may need to sit in a loop there; we'll see).

Actually, that's probably going to trip the NMI oopser.



Cheers,
Bill