On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:39, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> Throughout the past two years of 4k stack-wars, I never heard why
> such a small stack was needed (not wanted, needed).
Because after some prolonged uptime, memory can be heavily fragmented.
In this case an order-0 allocation will always succeed (as long as some
memory is free), whereas an order-1 allocation may easily fail.
Xav
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
