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free_memory_available() is enough?

To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: free_memory_available() is enough?
From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:14:40 +0100 (MET)
cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Reply-To: H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl
Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org

Hi Linus,

I was just wondering... With people complaining (justly) all
over the place that kswapd just swapped out half of their
memory, wouldn't it be better to have a limit on the amount
of memory kswapd _can_ swap out? (let's say 1/8th of memory)

grtz,

Rik.
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