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@@ -574,16 +574,24 @@ of physical RAM. See above.
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page-cluster
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-page-cluster controls the number of pages which are written to swap in
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-a single attempt. The swap I/O size.
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+page-cluster controls the number of pages up to which consecutive pages
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+are read in from swap in a single attempt. This is the swap counterpart
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+to page cache readahead.
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+The mentioned consecutivity is not in terms of virtual/physical addresses,
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+but consecutive on swap space - that means they were swapped out together.
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It is a logarithmic value - setting it to zero means "1 page", setting
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it to 1 means "2 pages", setting it to 2 means "4 pages", etc.
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+Zero disables swap readahead completely.
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The default value is three (eight pages at a time). There may be some
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small benefits in tuning this to a different value if your workload is
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swap-intensive.
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+Lower values mean lower latencies for initial faults, but at the same time
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+extra faults and I/O delays for following faults if they would have been part of
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+that consecutive pages readahead would have brought in.
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