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Alan Willis wrote:
> 
> > That's an awful lot of mapped memory.  Have you been altering
> > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness?  Has some application run berzerk
> > and used tons of memory?
> >
> > Slab:             7592 kB
> > Committed_AS:   423120 kB
> > PageTables:       1996 kB
> > ReverseMaps:     69425
> > HugePages_Total:    15
> > HugePages_Free:     15
> > Hugepagesize:     4096 kB
> 
> vm.swappiness was set to 0

OK ;)

That sucker really works.  I run my desktop machines (768M and 256M)
at swappiness=80% or 90%.   I end up with 10-20 megs in swap after a
day or two, which seems about right.  The default of 60 is probably a
little too unswappy.

> I'll stick to 2.5.46 for a while yet I guess, to be sure.

Thanks.
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