Re: instrumentation patch for shrink_mmap to find cause of failures- it did :-)

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Roger Larsson wrote:

> What to do about it:
> a) Move the zone check early - buffers may get old...
> b) Undo counting before continuing due to wrong zone

a) is a non-issue since the buffers will get old just as
   well if there's no memory pressure and shrink_mmap
   isn't run

I think your patch (from the other email) is the correct one
for the current MM structure. I'm definately taking your
results into account for the active/inactive/scavenge list
thing I'm working on right now.

regards,

Rik
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