Comment 9 for bug 1401817

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Marcus Klein (kleini76) wrote :

Hmm, sorry. Downloaded file is stored in an XFS filesystem on a rotating disc partition. So there needs to be something wrong in the block cache implementation in the kernel causing memory usage to be higher that available memory. And consuming more memory for block caches than currently is available leads to swapping. This does not make sense at all...