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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again
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> > I guess it'd work fine with only one machine, as IMO, the problem must be
> > the kernel not releasing buffers
>
> too much variable.
>
> Also keep in mind if you grow the socket buffer to hundred mbyte on an
> highmem machine the zone-normal will finish too fast and you may run out
> of memory. 2.4.19pre9aa2 in such case should at least return -ENOMEM and
> not deadlock.

it's not a highmem machine. And. It's not user space processes using the 
memory
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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester

Computers are like air conditioners.
They stop working when you open Windows.
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