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Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-zone kswapd process
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 05:59, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Machines without observable NUMA effects can benefit from it if it's
> per-zone. It also follows that if there's more than one task doing this,
> page replacement is less likely to block entirely. Last, but not least,
> when I devised it, "per-zone" was the theme.

It will also increase the amount of disk head thrashing surely ?

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