RHEL 8: Premature swapping with swappiness=0 while there is still plenty of pagecache to be reclaimed
Issue
- Even if memory is under pressure with swappiness=0, the inactive pagecache is swapped out instead of being reclaimed.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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