Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?)

[Alan Cox]

> I'm sure somebody will eventually write an OLS paper or something on the 
> advisability of making swapping decisions with 4k granularity when disks 
> really want bigger I/O transactions. 

Funnily enough someone thought of that many years ago. They even added
and documented it, then they made it adjustable.

See the vm section of Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

Alan
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