memory fragmentation issues in 1.2?

[George Schlossnagle]

Kevin Burton wrote:
> yeah.... swappiness is an evil little hidden secret...
> 
> http://www.feedblog.org/2006/09/stupid_linux_sw.html
> 
> For servers your best bet is to turn it off...

So, I'm actually not actively swapping.  The problem is that my RSS is
growing (slowly, but monotonically) without bounds.  Eventually, this
OOMs, resulting in the application crashing.  I'd like it to not do
that. :-)

George