linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.20 OOM with 8Gb RAM

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Message-ID: <20070413234010.GX2986@holomorphy.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:40:10 -0700
From:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jason Lunz <lunz@...ooley.org>, Cameron Schaus <cam@...aus.ca>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.20 OOM with 8Gb RAM

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:54:33 -0700 William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com> wrote:
>> After all this time, bdevs are still lowmem etc. Crying shame.

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 04:32:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> One would need to hunt down every use of b_data in filesystems and switch
> them to kmap the page.
> Possibly it could be done on a per-fs basis.

Queued right behind a dozen other massive sweeps for me to do.


-- wli
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