I mentioned this previously; it's still happening.

This started some time around 2.5.62-mm3 with the io_load results on contest 
benchmarking (http://contest.kolivas.org) rising with each run. It still 
occurs with 2.5.63-mm1 regardless of which elevator is specified. This is the 
io load result time(seconds) for 6 consecutive runs in compile time:

111
147
221
284
334
358

/proc/meminfo after 6 runs and mem flushing:

MemTotal:       256156 kB
MemFree:        238708 kB
Buffers:          2320 kB
Cached:           1552 kB
SwapCached:       1780 kB
Active:           5876 kB
Inactive:         2120 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       256156 kB
LowFree:        238708 kB
SwapTotal:     4194272 kB
SwapFree:      4192416 kB
Dirty:              28 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:       4294923652 kB
Slab:             4872 kB
Committed_AS:     7032 kB
PageTables:        200 kB
ReverseMaps:       631

I am refraining from publishing any benchmark results with this happening. It 
doesn't seem to occur on 2.5.63

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