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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:59:52 +0200 (CEST)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: filecache/swapcache questions [RFC] [RFT] [PATCH] kanoj-mm12-2.3.8
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To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
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On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:51:03 -0700 (PDT), kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com (Kanoj Sarcar) said:
>
>>> or perhaps the kernel could start more than one kswapd (one per swap
>>> partition?).  with my patch, regular processes never wait for swap out
>>> I/O, only kswapd does.
>
>This is a mistake: such blocking is one of the prime ways in which we
>can limit the rate at which processes can consume memory.

Agreed.

Andrea

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