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  1. Bug #620074
  2. Comment #488

Comment 488 for bug 620074

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

(In reply to comment #471)

> Isn't there already a knob for controlling the kernel's preference for
> swapping
> anonymous pages out to disk versus retaining cached/buffered block-device
> pages?
>
> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness — http://kerneltrap.org/node/3000

(For some reason playing with this doesn't seem to do anything, but perhaps that's another bug report.)