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SubjectRe: Patch for block write clustering
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Under Solaris, reading/writing (at least to swap) is done by
> > a kernel thread. When we do that, it becomes way easier to
> > program all sorts of complex sorting algoritms, but I wonder
> > whether that would be worth it...
>
> Its called kswapd 8)

Kswapd doesn't do:
- swapins
- writing of buffers/files (done by bdflush)
- reading of files/metadata

Rik.
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