Hi,
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 12:52:51 +0100 (CET), Andrea Arcangeli
<andrea@suse.de> said:
> I think freepages.* is dead. I just wanted to remove it but actually
> nobody is hurted by it so I left it there for now.
freepages.* is critically important for allowing the user to define the
"headroom" of free memory maintained for ATOMIC allocations. On busy
networked machines, this is absolutely vital. For user-mode
allocations, it's never going to be that important except as a way of
allowing some slack as we start up the page stealer in the background.
--Stephen
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