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* free_memory_available() is enough?
@ 1998-03-26 10:14 Rik van Riel
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From: Rik van Riel @ 1998-03-26 10:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds; +Cc: linux-mm

Hi Linus,

I was just wondering... With people complaining (justly) all
over the place that kswapd just swapped out half of their
memory, wouldn't it be better to have a limit on the amount
of memory kswapd _can_ swap out? (let's say 1/8th of memory)

grtz,

Rik.
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