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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1/5 VM changes: zone-pressure.patch
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Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM> wrote:
>
>  > OK, fixes a bug.
> 
>  What bug?

Failing to consider mapped pages on the active list until the scanning
priority gets large.

I ran up your five patches on a 256MB box, running `qsbench -m 350'.  It got
all slow then the machine seized up.   I'll poke at it some.