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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.4-rc2-mm1: vm-split-active-lists
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Hi, Andrew Morton wrote:

> That effect is to cause the whole world to be swapped out when people
> return to their machines in the morning.

The correct solution to this problem is "suspend-to-disk" --
if the machine isn't doing anything anyway, TURN IT OFF.

One slightly more practical solution from the "you-now-who gets angry
mails" POV anyway, would be to tie the reduced-rate scanning to the load
average -- if nothing at all happens, swap-out doesn't need to happen
either.

-- 
Matthias Urlichs
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