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Re:Behind the Windows 7 memory usage scaremongering by nkurz on Sunday February 21, 2010 @12:42AM (#1140197)
Could you clarify how the problem is hard to fix under Linux? If you set swappiness to 0, does it still swap out application pages?
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Re:Behind the Windows 7 memory usage scaremongering by spudlyo on Monday February 22, 2010 @07:37PM (#1144200)
Yes. Even with swappiness at zero, Linux will still swap when you don't want it to.
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