minor patch for 2.1.90 fs/buffer.c
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Quoted 2 lines · Bill Hawes
allocation would be required. (I recently observed a machine with 500M of RAM, heavily swapping, but with only 360 buffers, so this situation can occur.)
Indeed, you're completely right... I've noticed something like this as well, although not as severe.
But maybe we should _limit_ the second-round allocation to something less than half of the needed buffermem (say, 1/4th).
Rik.
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