Comment 627 for bug 500069
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(In reply to comment #466)
> So the big question: Why do the kernel allow large data writes to fill up the
> memory and even swap out stuff just to get data to be written into memory?
A good question, but not the real source of this problem I guess. Judging by the previous posts and my own experience, this problems seems to occur with any concurrent I/O, possibly promoted by encryption. Provided that it is only one bug we are talking about.