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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:06:06 -0700
From: Victor Yodaiken <yodaiken@fsmlabs.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Victor Yodaiken <yodaiken@fsmlabs.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
        Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: mempool design
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 05:55:14PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Victor Yodaiken wrote:
> 
> > I agree with all your arguments up to here. But being able to run
> > Linux in 4Meg or even 8M is important to a very large class of
> > applications. [...]
> 
> the amount of reserved RAM should be very low. Especially in embedded
> applications that usually have a very controlled environment, with a low
> number of well-behaving devices, the number of pages needed to be reserved
> is very low. I wouldnt worry about this.


Bueno.
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