What's up with the swapping since 10/stable

[Andriy Gapon]

on 04/04/2014 11:09 Steven Hartland said the following:
> We've noticed that swapping is much more agressive in 10.0 than
> in 8.3 and have indeed seen it swap processes out when there is
> 10GB+ free memory.

I believe that r254304 made the page daemon more eager to page out and, as a
consequence, to potentially swap out.  Also, it skewed the fragile and imperfect
cooperation between the page daemon and ARC sizing.

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Andriy Gapon