On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

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> So something like this fugly patch on top of the SLUB variable order 
> patches that let the allocator fall-back to smaller page orders. Survives 
> OOM in my testing and the box seems to be bit more responsive even under X 
> with this.

Hmmmm... Peter has the most experience with these issues. Maybe the best 
would be to have this sort of logic in a more general way in the page 
allocator? Similar issues surely exist with the page allocator and a fix 
there would fix it for all users.

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