Re: [PATCH] Patch to Memory Subsystem ... (Needed?)

Brian Schau (bsc@fleggaard.dk)
Fri, 06 Nov 1998 21:07:43 +0100


Meelis Roos wrote:
>
> > > What if during the change there was less free pages than 1024?
> >
> > Then your *users* are in trouble - as I wrote later in the mail ;o)
>
> No, I meant when the users have allocated more than the new value would
> allow.

Ah! Ok, I see ...

I guess it's not freed but no more allocations are allowed.

Correct - no more allocations are allowed.

Or
> would it cause some problems like some differences in free memory
> accounting?

No - it shouldn't. (And as far as I see, it doesn't!)

>
> ---
> Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)

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