A 2.5G machine would, iirc, spin for 3-5 minutes.
Umm, probably the time would increase somewhat exponentially
with memory size so yes, you could be in for a very long wait.
-ac kernels have an lru per zone and so would not be bitten
by this failure. If indeed you are striking this problem,
which is described at
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2002-08/msg00049.html
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