Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937392AbWLEGlZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 01:41:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S937386AbWLEGlY (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 01:41:24 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-06.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.45]:51489 "EHLO ms-smtp-06.texas.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937362AbWLEGlV (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 01:41:21 -0500 Message-Id: <200612050641.kB56f7wY018196@ms-smtp-06.texas.rr.com> Reply-To: From: "Aucoin" To: "'Linus Torvalds'" Cc: "'Nick Piggin'" , "'Tim Schmielau'" , "'Andrew Morton'" , , Subject: RE: la la la la ... swappiness Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 00:41:07 -0600 Organization: home MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 In-reply-to: Thread-Index: AccYKFlX15XVnIOPRHW+SUz5aoLFAQADyh3w X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 656 Lines: 16 > From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@osdl.org] > I actually suspect you should be _fairly_ close to such a situation We run with min_free_kbytes set around 4k to answer your earlier question. > Louis, exactly how do you allocate that big 1.6GB shared area? Ummm, shm_open, ftruncate, mmap ? Is it a trick question ? The process responsible for initially setting up the shared area doesn't stay resident. - 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/