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Subject: Re: More on O_STREAMING (goodby read pauses)
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"J.A. Magallon" wrote:
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> ...
> I look at gnome system monitor graph for mem. I start with a tiny amount of
> used memory. Start the 1Gb read without O_STREAM, the blue area in monitor
> starts to grow linearly in time, stars (*) from the reader appear at a
> given rate, and as soon as it touches the top limit the stars stop, the disk
> begins to thrash, and swap space used grows. After a 2-4 seconds, the stars
> go again with the same rate. Tell me what is this but swapper writing pages,
> and reading the new pages for my giga.
> 

That's fairly rude behaviour for a 2.4 kernel.  Sounds like 2.5 ;)

What kernel is that?
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