Re: PATCH - raise max_anon limit

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Feb 11 2004 - 15:39:26 EST




On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Tim Hockin wrote:

> > d) grab a couple of pages and be done with that. That gives us 64Kbits.
>
> Maybe that is just the simplest answer? It can be a simple constant that is
> changeable at compile time, and leave it at that
>
> What's most likely to cause the least argument?

I'd suggest just raising it to 64k or so, that's likely to be acceptable,
and it's a static 8kB array. That's likely not much more than the code
needed to worry about dynamic entries, yet I'd assume that changing it
from 256 to 64k is going to make most people say "enough".

Linus
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