Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 swsusp bug report.

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 22:22, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 11:45, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 
> >>What causes memory to be so fragmented? 
> > 
> > 
> > Normal usage; the pattern of pages being freed and allocated inevitably
> > leads to fragmentation. The buddy allocator does a good job of
> > minimising it, but what is really needed is a run-time defragmenter. I
> > saw mention of this recently, but it's probably not that practical to
> > implement IMHO.
> > 
> 
> 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?
Regardless, not using order 8 allocations seems to me to be a better
solution (but then I have a barrow^H^H^H^H^H^Hpatch to push once I finish my current round
of cleanups :>).

Nigel

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