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From:
Alan Cox <alan@...>
To: Li Yang <leoli@...>
Cc: <linux-mm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Kong Wei <weikong@...>
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Re: [PATCH] [mm] limit the min_free_kbytes
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 5:46 am
On Wed, 21 May 2008 17:34:41 +0800 Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> wrote:
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> From: Kong Wei <weikong@redflag-linux.com> > > Unlimited of min_free_kbytes is dangerous, > An user of our company set this value bigger than 3584*1024*K, > cause the system OOM on DMA.
You need to be root to set this value, and as root you could equally just type "halt", run a real time process in a tight loop or reformat the hard disk. NAK this patch --
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