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Randall Stewart wrote:

> Should we think about adding some sort of garbage
> collector thread.. that could hang around slowly and
> periodically look for a zone with large numbers of free
> pages... and then drain that zone?
> 
> Or maybe this already exists and I just can't find the
> connection???

If it doesn't exist, it would probably be better to piggyback that to
some already existing garbage collector thread.