dvd ripping causing: Re: excessive swapping

[bert hubert]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:10:37AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:

> I'm sorry for rambling, but to me the current swapping policy is so
> blatantly wrong. Besides the space occupied by the apps themselves,
> there's a lot of room to _spare_ - then why swap?

It is a bug - calm down. It has been reported before but now quite hammered
down yet.

Can you report the files I asked you for? Could you also try:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 

Thanks.

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