On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 05:59, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

Machines without observable NUMA effects can benefit from it if it's
per-zone. It also follows that if there's more than one task doing this,
page replacement is less likely to block entirely. Last, but not least,
when I devised it, "per-zone" was the theme.

It will also increase the amount of disk head thrashing surely ?

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