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Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:07:12 -0300 (BRT)
From: 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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On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:

> 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 ?"

If you have an answer, please let me know.

Rik
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