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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Good way to free as much memory as possible under 2.5.34?
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Hi!

> > The question is: why is the VM not able to fulfill such a simple need in
> > a clean way?
> 
> No. The question is: "why does swsuspend need to stick its fingers
> into every other subsystem of the kernel, instead of trying to
> remain vaguely modular ?"

I'm not trying to stick swsusp fingers anywhere. It was suggested to
me to hack VM and I'm trying to avoid that.
								Pavel
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