On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Even with fairly late model linux kernels (i.e.
> 10.04 LTS through 11.04) I've watched the kswapd start up swapping
> hard on a machine with zero memory pressure and no need for swap.
> Took about 2 weeks of hard running before kswapd decided to act
> pathological.
Perhaps you had some overfull partitions in tmpfs?