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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-zone kswapd process
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:44:30 +0200
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On Friday 13 September 2002 06:59, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:06:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I still don't see why it's per zone and not per node.  It seems strange
> > that a wee little laptop would be running two kswapds?
> > kswapd can get a ton of work done in the development VM and one per
> > node would, I expect, suffice?
> 
> Machines without observable NUMA effects can benefit from it if it's
> per-zone.

How?

-- 
Daniel