In article <878wyocy0v.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> you wrote:
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> If you don't want your application to be swapped at all you
> should probably investigate mlock(2)/mlockall(2)

Maybe this is similiar to the "well known" mysql dirty buffer problem?

It looks strange to me that sysadmins are forced to swap to ramdisks:

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/05/01/mysql-and-the-linux-swap-problem/

Gruss
Bernd
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