Re: useless report -- perhaps memory allocation problems in 2.1.12[678]

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>]

On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> But whether kswapd should go page-synchronous at some point? Maybe. I can
> see arguments both for and against (the "for" argument is that we prefer
> to have more intense bouts of IO followed by a nice clean wait, while the
> "against" argument is that maybe we want to spread out the thing). 

Oh, well, I'm currently leaning for "for", which means your patch to
page_io.c is what I have now.. I don't like "trickling" pages by running
out of requests or something like that, so having the occasional nice wait
is probably best.

		Linus

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