Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 May 2007 13:12:30 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: swap prefetch improvements |
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* Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
> > hm, what do you call 'journal writeout' here that would be happening > > on my system? > > Not really sure what you have in terms of fs, but here even with > nothing going on, ext3 writes to disk every 5 seconds with kjournald.
i have ext3, but it doesnt do that on my box. Also, i would have noticed any IO activity in the 'swap prefetch off' case. When i said completely idle, i really meant it ;-)
so swap-prefetch stops for 5 seconds for no apparent reason.
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