Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 20:36:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 20:36:57 -0500 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust42.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.42]:46515 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 20:36:56 -0500 Subject: Re: Maybe a VM bug in 2.4.18-18 from RH 8.0? From: Alan Cox To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , Norman Gaywood , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20021207002133.GT9882@holomorphy.com> References: <3DEFF69F.481AB823@digeo.com> <20021206011733.GF1567@dualathlon.random> <3DEFFEAA.6B386051@digeo.com> <20021206014429.GI1567@dualathlon.random> <20021206021559.GK9882@holomorphy.com> <20021206022853.GJ1567@dualathlon.random> <20021206024140.GL9882@holomorphy.com> <20021206222852.GF4335@dualathlon.random> <20021206232125.GR9882@holomorphy.com> <3DF13A54.927C04C1@digeo.com> <20021207002133.GT9882@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 07 Dec 2002 02:19:49 +0000 Message-Id: <1039227589.25062.10.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 628 Lines: 14 On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 00:21, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > 16K is reasonable; after that one might as well go all the way. > About the only way to cope is amortizing it by cacheing zeroed pages, > and that has other downsides. Some of the lower end CPU's only have about 12-16K of L1. I don't think thats a big problem since those aren't going to be highmem or large memory users - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/