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From: Rik van Riel To: Gregory Price , Kairui Song Cc: Chris Li , Johannes Weiner , Baoquan He , Nhat Pham , Michal Hocko , Roman Gushchin , Shakeel Butt , Yosry Ahmed , David Hildenbrand , Muchun Song , Kemeng Shi , Barry Song , YoungJun Park , Chengming Zhou , "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" , "Liam R. 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They would set memory.swap =3D 8G Other people may want to limit how much memory is used for the zswap pool. They use memory.zswap. Yet other people may want to limit how much physical swap space is used for a particular cgroup. They use memory.pswap. Almost nobody would use all three. Which one you use depends on your use case. --=20 All Rights Reversed.