> That sounds like overkill. There are not so many free pages in a > typical server system. As Fengguang said -- memory error handling is tricky. Lots of things could be done in theory, but they all have a cost in testing and maintenance. In general they are only worth doing if the situation is common and represents a significant percentage of the total pages of a relevant server workload. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>