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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:08:35 +0100 (CET)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com>
Subject: Re: New patch (was Re: [PATCH] swapin readahead v3 + kswapd fixes)
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To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
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On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

>in every case I have tried.  132-pre3 seems OK on a larger memory
>machine, but there's no way I'll be running it on my low-memory test
>boxes.

Could you try to apply my patch I sent to you too some minutes ago? It
seems to perform well at least on 32Mbyte. The point is that setting the
prio = 4 in try_to_free_pages() avoid that processes will stuck in the
SYNC IO. 

Andrea Arcangeli

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