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From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: la la la la ... swappiness
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 22:02:17 +0300
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As a workaround try this:

echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio

Hopefully someone can fix this intrinsic swap before drop behaviour.


Thanks!

--
Al