Swappiness is bullshit and easily undone by the priority field. Make the vm actually obey swappiness except in absolute distress. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.21/mm/vmscan.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.21.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2007-06-14 16:05:00.000000000 +1000 +++ linux-2.6.21/mm/vmscan.c 2007-06-14 16:07:02.000000000 +1000 @@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ * `distress' is a measure of how much trouble we're having * reclaiming pages. 0 -> no problems. 100 -> great trouble. */ - distress = 100 >> min(zone->prev_priority, priority); + distress = (priority < 1 ? 100 : 0); /* * The point of this algorithm is to decide when to start