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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: Scary Intel SATA problem: "frozen"
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:11:43 -0500
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To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
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Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> You pushed your box really hard and the kernel can't get the memory it 
> wants.  Not really relevant to SATA problem.

...unless the slowdown is due to extraordinarily high swap activity,
because of the low-memory situation..