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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: High Utilization kswapd and kupdated in Large memory system
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"vwake" <vwake@indiatimes.com> wrote:
>
> On large memory machine ( 32 GB RAM) 
> ...
> The kernel is version 2.4.22

Not a chance, my friend.

Try 2.4.23-pre8, or 2.6.