A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap

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Because the kernel evicts pages by age, it sends the least recently accessed pages to swap. Per message, this costs more than the metadata pause. You can find everything about these experiments: plots, the mock allocator, bpf scripts, python scripts, etc. , here: https://github.

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