On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Robert Kaye <rob(at)musicbrainz(dot)org> wrote:
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> 4. Linux 3.2 apparently has some less than desirable swap behaviours. Once
> we started swapping, everything went nuts.
On older machines I used to just turn off swap altogether. Esp if I
wasn't running out of memory but swap was engaging anyway. swappiness
= 0 didn't help, nothing did, I just kept seeing kswapd working it's
butt off doing nothing but hitting the swap partition.
So glad to be off those old kernels.