> I gave this a burn, and under hefty load it seems to provide a bit of
> anti-thrash benefit.
Judging from your log, it ends up stalling kswapd and
dramatically increases the number of times that normal
processes need to go into the pageout code.
If this provides an anti-thrashing benefit, something's
wrong with the VM in 2.5 ;)
Rik
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