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Subject: Re: Problems with VM
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> as 'normal' ran.  Consequently, I will have a machine that has 5M
> 'normal' RAM, 800M 'cache' RAM and the reset coming out of swap space.
> I need this 'cache' RAM placed back into the available RAM pool to be
> used by applications.  Is there a patch/kernel configuration that I can
> change this behavior?

2.4.18-rc1 should fix the worst of that. The rmap patches in 2.4.18-ac
definitely fix it
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