Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 09:45:27 +1100
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, joneskoo@derbian.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: swapper: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20
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> > How does this look?
> > [...]
> > +	static unsigned long toks = 10*5*HZ;
> > +	static unsigned long last_msg; 
> > +	static int missed;
> 
> This would mean that all users of printk_ratelimit share this. If
> printk_ratelimit is bombed by one user other perhaps important messages
> are also suppressed.

printk_ratelimit is only to be used for things which we can afford to 
lose (eg our VM debugging messages). Don't use it on anything important :)

Anton
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