> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.981129131222.20862F-100000@z.ml.org>,
> Gregory Maxwell <linker@z.ml.org> wrote:
> >
> >No just bad, very very very bad. 8k is the smallest unit that can have
> >frag problems, and it's very important that we can fork.
> >
> >If this is happening to people then perhaps we need to delay 2.2 and wait
> >for the 2.3 big MM changes. How trivial is an emergency defragmenter?
>
> Stop blaming the memory management!
>
> People blamed the memory management last time too, and ran around in
> circles shouting that it needed to be rewritten. They were wrong then,
> they are wrong now. The error reported was EAGAIN, not ENOMEM. Big
> difference.
Sorry.. :( I didn't read.. Why can't people write programs that respond
correctly to EAGAIN? Sigh.
> People have fragmentation on their brains, PLEASE STOP IT!
>
> Linus
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