> Maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems to me that these
> problems are due to the cache putting pressure on VM, so process
> pages get swapped out.
That's what it felt like in the cases that I ran into it. It was
trying to treat all memory equally, when it probably shouldn't have.
Jeremy
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