I had the same thing happen, only for me it was 2.1.104+ac1 plus the
following patches from Bill Hawes:
arch386_ldt104-patch buffer_104-patch mmap_104-patch
nfsd_104-patch swap_vm104-patch
After a while 2/3 of the processes had no resident pages.
My amazing sixth sense tells me the culprit would be the
swap_vm104-patch (but I'm known to be wrong before:)
I was trying to recompile .105 at the time, ended up rebooting and
finishing the compile from a fresh startup as it was taking half
an hour to compile one .c file (somewhere in the net/ hierarchy)
2.1.105+ac is running great though (and I've noticed its still a
tad aggressive in swapping out pages)
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