Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:28:59 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?) |
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> I'm sure somebody will eventually write an OLS paper or something on the > advisability of making swapping decisions with 4k granularity when disks > really want bigger I/O transactions.
Funnily enough someone thought of that many years ago. They even added and documented it, then they made it adjustable.
See the vm section of Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
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