Re: free_memory_available() bug in pre-91-1

[Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>]

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, H.H.vanRiel wrote:
> > 
> > I've just found a bug in free_memory_available() as
> > implemented in pre-91-1...
> 
> Ugh, yes. How about pre-91-2, which I just put out? It has more of the
> code the way I _think_ it should be, and it should try a lot harder to not
> hog the CPU with kswapd. 

Actually, I was referring to the fact that free_memory_available()
returns 3 when there's not a single 128k area available...
In that case, it should return 2.

But I'll try pre-91-2.

Rik.
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