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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 22:14:05 +0100
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kswapd @ 60-80% CPU during heavy HD i/o.
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Hi,

On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:06:20PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > do the smart things I was mentining some day ago in linux-mm
> > with NUMA.
> 
> How do you want to take care of global page balancing with
> this "optimisation"?

You don't.  With NUMA, the memory is inherently unbalanced, and you
don't want the allocator to smooth over the different nodes.

--Stephen
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