Alexander Viro wrote:
> We _have_ VM pressure there. However, such loads had never been used, so
> there's no wonder that system gets unbalanced under them.
> 
> I suspect that simple replacement of goto next; with continue; in the
> fs/dcache.c::prune_dcache() may make situation seriously better.

Awesome.  With the obvious patch attached, some local ramfs problems
disappeared, and my browser and e-mail program are no longer swapped out
when doing a kernel build.

Thanks :)

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