Comment 283 for bug 620074

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In , sgh (sgh-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

Well Mathieu Desnoyers did a fix for the write-cache accounting which solves the kernel write-cache to eat up all available memory + swap. Witout the fix the slowness is solved by setting swappiness to 0 or disabling swap, The fix is afaik not in 2.6.29.