page_launder() on 2.4.9/10 issue
Quoted 3 lines · Linus
Think about it - do you really want the system to actively try to reach the point where it has no "regular" pages left, and has to start writing stuff out (and wait for them synchronously) in order to free up memory? I
I`m 100% agreed with you here: i had been hit by this issue
alot of times... This is absolutely reproducible with streaming io case.
I think the lower is the number of processes simultaneously accessing data, the
harder this beats us... (cant explain, but this is how i feel that)
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strongly feel that the old code was really really wrong - it may have been
sorry if im a noise here...
cheers,
Sam