Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 swsusp bug report.

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Sat Sep 25 2004 - 08:46:31 EST


Nigel Cunningham wrote:
Hi.

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 22:22, Nick Piggin wrote:



Well, by this stage it looks like memory is already pretty well shrunk
as much as it is going to be, which means that even a pretty capable
defragmenter won't be able to do anything.


Surely it would be able to rearrange pages to get a contiguous megabyte?

For lots of stuff it is just infeasable. Just about all kernel memory,
for example.

But yeah, regardless, really the best thing is not to use such large
allocations at all.
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