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Subject: Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
>>>Perhaps what we really want is "swap_back_in" script? That way you
>>>could do "updatedb; swap_back_in" in cron and be happy.
>>
>>swapoff -a; swapon -a
> 
> 
> Good point... it will not bring back executable pages, through.
> 
> 								Pavel

Wouldn't this also be a problem if you are using more memory than you 
have physical RAM?