> do did you actually try this with a bunch of parallel dd's?
I just did now. Same result:
# vmstat 2
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
0 200 1 1676 3200 3012 786004 0 292 42034 298 791 745 4 29 67
0 200 1 1676 3308 3136 785760 0 0 44304 0 748 758 3 15 82
0 200 1 1676 3296 3232 785676 0 0 44236 0 756 710 2 23 75
0 200 1 1676 3304 3356 785548 0 0 38662 70 778 791 3 19 78
0 200 1 1676 3200 3456 785552 0 0 33536 0 693 594 3 13 84
1 200 0 1676 3224 3528 785192 0 0 35330 24 794 712 3 16 81
0 200 0 1676 3304 3736 784324 0 0 30524 74 725 793 12 14 74
0 200 0 1676 3256 3796 783664 0 0 29984 0 718 826 4 10 86
0 200 0 1676 3288 3868 783592 0 0 25540 152 763 812 3 17 80
0 200 0 1676 3276 3908 783472 0 0 22820 0 693 731 0 7 92
0 200 0 1676 3200 3964 783540 0 0 23312 6 759 827 4 11 85
0 200 0 1676 3308 3984 783452 0 0 17506 0 687 697 0 11 89
0 200 0 1676 3388 4012 783888 0 0 14512 0 671 638 1 5 93
0 200 0 2188 3208 4048 784156 0 512 16104 548 707 833 2 10 88
0 200 0 3468 3204 4048 784788 0 66 8220 66 628 662 0 3 96
0 200 0 3468 3296 4060 784680 0 0 1036 6 687 714 1 6 93
0 200 0 3468 3316 4060 784668 0 0 1018 0 613 631 1 2 97
0 200 0 3468 3292 4060 784688 0 0 1034 0 617 638 0 3 97
0 200 0 3468 3200 4068 784772 0 0 1066 6 694 727 2 4 94
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