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Subject: Re: swap zone exhausted, increase kern.maxswzone
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Matthew Dillon wrote this message on Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:46 -0700:
>     Basically maxswzone is the amount of KVM the kernel is willing to
			        ^ maximum
>     use to store 'struct swblock' structures.

If the 8x memory limit hits first (specificly page_count / 2 *
sizeof(struct swblock) is smaller than maxswzone), maxswzone will be
ignored...

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