Bill Davidsen wrote:
Nick Piggin wrote:
Aubrey wrote:
Exactly, and the *real* fix is to modify userspace not to make >
PAGE_SIZE
mallocs[*] if it is to be nommu friendly. It is the kernel hacks to do
things
like limit cache size that are the bandaids.
Tuning the system to work appropriately for a given load is not a
band-aid.
We are talking about about fragmentation. And limiting pagecache to try to
avoid fragmentation is a bandaid, especially when the problem can be solved
(not just papered over, but solved) in userspace.
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