page_launder() on 2.4.9/10 issue

[Samium Gromoff]

  Linus wrote:
> Think about it - do you really want the system to actively try to reach
> the point where it has no "regular" pages left, and has to start writing
> stuff out (and wait for them synchronously) in order to free up memory? I
   I`m 100% agreed with you here: i had been hit by this issue 
 alot of times... This is absolutely reproducible with streaming io case.
   I think the lower is the number of processes simultaneously accessing data, the
 harder this beats us... (cant explain, but this is how i feel that)
> strongly feel that the old code was really really wrong - it may have been

sorry if im a noise here...

cheers,
 Sam