Giuliano Pochini writes:
 > It seems that this behaviour started with v.2.2.7. For example I 
 > noticed
 > that linux swaps even if there still is a lot of free memory !!  When I
 > play CD tracks stored on my HD, buffer entry increases until it fills 
 > all
 > available memory, then it start swapping.
 > Strange. IMHO it's a bug.
 > 

Same behaviour here and it's also in 2.3.2. On a 128 MB machine that
almost never used swap before.

Lieven

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