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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:44:03 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
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Subject: Re: Rising io_load results Re: 2.5.63-mm1
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Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
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> This started some time around 2.5.62-mm3 with the io_load results on contest 
> benchmarking (http://contest.kolivas.org) rising with each run.
> ...
> Mapped:       4294923652 kB

Well that's gotta hurt.  This metric is used in making writeback decisions. 
Probably the objrmap patch.

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