Does the swap daemon do read-ahead of the pages it wants back from disk during a page-fault?
Or does it let the file-system manage that? Or does it do this in combination with the file-system's read-ahead strategy?
If so, exactly what kind of read-ahead does it do? (how far ahead does it read)?
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