High cache memory usage with virtual machines causes swapping
Issue
Nearly all free memory appears to be lost to cache, when free memory is needed by qemu-kvm client the host starts to swap, though a lot of memory would have been available (if not lost to that cache).
Swapping is not wanted and will cause after a while an alarm by design.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
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