CURRENT: why is CURRENT swapping so fast?

[Mark Martinec]

me wrote:
 >> Is this also fixed in the 10.0-STABLE by now?
 >>
>> The situation does not improve by itself, ARC has it all, less
>> active jobs scramble and fight for whatever free memory is left for
>> them and most of them remain swapped out. The best curse of action
>> to recover is to reboot. Quite a pain.

On 2014-06-14 17:29, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> You may want to check out
> <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187594> which I
> believe is related.  Make sure you get the latest patch rather than
> the older one, ref's in comment 10 at
> <http://www.denninger.net/FreeBSD-Patches/arc-patch>.

Great, thank you, will apply it in the coming days.

One would hope that such a serious pathological behaviour
(in 10-STABLE and 11) would get the patch applied by now
(patch available for two months now, problem described in March),
or the former logic reverted.

   Mark