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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:48:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
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Subject: Re: %u-order allocation failed
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
> Linus, what do you think: is it OK if fork randomly fails with very small
> probability or not?

I've never seen it, I've never heard it reported, and I _know_ that
vmalloc() causes slowdowns.

In short, I'm not switching to a vmalloc() fork.

		Linus

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