On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 09:23:37PM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> > Is it possible that your memory allocate fails to grab a new page if
> > all the free pages are used for the buffer cache? That machine is
> > configured to use a lot of memorfy for the buffer cache.
> The thing is that there are checks all around to ensure that memory
> allocations went correctly (i.e., they didn't return NULL);

That's not my question. Let me try to rephrase it:
Will "tmpfs" kick against UVM hard enough to get memory e.g. by flushing
pages from the buffer cache?

	Kind regards

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