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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 02:44:18 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: disabling kswapd
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Sasha Pachev wrote:

> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0108.0/0675.html. I
> adapted it to my kernel ( 2.4.17-rc2), disabled kswapd, did some
> testing and noticed much better performance.

This is very hard to believe.

If kswapd does not run, it just means that _other_ processes
will run the exact same code, only synchronously (instead of
having kswapd do the cleanup for them).

kind regards,

Rik
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