Re: Gigantic memory leak in linux-2.6.[789]!

[Tommy Reynolds]

Uttered Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>, spake thus:

> With all the work Nick, Ingo,Con and others are putting into latency and 
> responsiveness, I don't understand why anyone thinks this is desirable 
> behavior. The idle loop is the perfect place to perform things like 
> this, to convert non-productive cycles into performing tasks which will 
> directly improve response and performance when the task MUST be done. 

Bill, with respect,

The idle loop is, by definition, the place to go when there is
nothing else to do.  Scrubbing memory is, by definition, not
"nothing", so leave the idle loop alone.

That's why God, or maybe it was Linus, invented kernel threads.

Cheers!

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