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On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 08:25:56PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 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);
>=20
> 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?

Probably not. We don't have a way for file systems to do this in general.

I think we need one. :-)

Take care,

Bill

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