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From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>
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Subject: free_memory_available() is enough?
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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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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