In case you are interested, here is the "vmstat 3" output from the MySQL
RPM build on alpha.  Kernel is 2.4.5 plus your VM fix patch posted to
lkml a day or two ago.  This does -not- include the balance patch.

The first attach is from a cold boot, and then a build.
The second attach is a second build, which occurs after I rm -rf the
first build, then unpack some random large tarballs (to fill the cache).

/proc/meminfo and /proc/cpuinfo are included at the beginning of each
attach.

MySQL RPM build is mainly interesting because, it uses a mixture of C
and C++ compilers, including a mixture small and medium size files, and
one huge C++ file, which takes up ~300M of VM at the peak of the cc1plus
process size.

About to go test with the balance patch added onto this...

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