On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 01:34:36PM -0300, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> That wouldn't have made a big difference in this case, except that
> one process doing readahead window thrashing with its own readahead
> data would have fallen over even worse ...
I don't know that case, but in my case, one process thrashing it's
read-ahead window is twice as fats as 16 processes doing so ;)
I wother wether these problems can be fixed at all, with all these
different situations where the vm behaves totally different in (seemingly)
similar cases.
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