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On 07/26/2007 11:58 AM, Björn Steinbrink wrote:

> Will now go and see what happens if I play with swappiness.

I in fact managed to overlook _all_ of swappiness (*) and was quite frankly 
under the impression that Linux would simply never swap anything out to make 
room for cache. Which is basic enough a misunderstanding that I'll go sulk 
in a corner now.

Rene.

(*)

$ grep -ri swappiness Documentation
$

Sigh...