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Rik van Riel wrote:
>> Remember that we're planning to go to an object-based scheme
>> later on, turning the code into a big monolithic mesh really
>> makes long-term maintenance a pain...

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 05:31:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> We have short-term rmap problems:
> 1) Unexplained pte chain state with ntpd
> 2) 10-20% increased CPU load in fork/exec/exit loads
> 3) system lock under heavy mmap load
> 4) ZONE_NORMAL pte_chain consumption

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 05:31:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Daniel and I are on 2), Bill is on 4) (I think).

I am indeed on (4), though I'd describe what I'm doing as "OOM handling".





Cheers,
Bill
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