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Subject: Re: Apparent strange disk behaviour in 6.0 
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In message <42E88F2B.5000108@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:
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>Julian Elischer wrote:
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>> I've been playing around with some raid arrays.
>> I've notived some odd things.
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>[stuff]
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>Ok I've done some researching..
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>it APPEARS that teh system is swapping out running programs in order to 
>store more write data!

I've seen evidence of this as well.


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