On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:37:43PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Going to a block size bigger than page size causes all sorts of fun with
> allocation failures if there are not two pages free adjacent to one another
> when allocating, and isn't really worth the cost.
This sounds like fairly severe memory fragmentation, which seems more
worrisome to me than blocksize constraints. Should I look into that?
Cheers,
Bill
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