Re: Subtle MM bug

[Linus Torvalds]

On 9 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> 
> Yes, but a lot more data on the swap also means degraded performance,
> because the disk head has to seek around in the much bigger area. Are
> you sure this is all OK?

Yes and no.

I'm not _sure_, obviously.

However, one thing I _am_ sure of is that the sticky page-cache simplifies
some things enormously, and make some things possible that simply weren't
possible before. 

		Linus