Re: [PATCH] mm: swap prefetch improvements

[Ingo Molnar]

* Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 
> > hm, what do you call 'journal writeout' here that would be happening 
> > on my system?
> 
> Not really sure what you have in terms of fs, but here even with 
> nothing going on, ext3 writes to disk every 5 seconds with kjournald.

i have ext3, but it doesnt do that on my box. Also, i would have noticed 
any IO activity in the 'swap prefetch off' case. When i said completely 
idle, i really meant it ;-)

so swap-prefetch stops for 5 seconds for no apparent reason.
 
	Ingo
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