I'll willing to try the BIOS update, but I'll bet you dollars to donuts
that this will make no difference.  It makes no sense to me that BIOS
bugs would have any effect on how the Linux kernel decides when to start
swapping.

I can use all of physical memory as long as I'm running multiple
processes.  If I'm running just one, the kernel decides to start
swapping when that one process exceeds half of physical memory, but it
WILL use all of physical memory once swap fills up.  This is all Linux
kernel stuff and has nothing to do with hardware access or processor
configuration or mapping of RAM to physical and virtual address spaces.

So what I'd like to know is why you think I should take the risk of
applying an unnecessary BIOS update for something that should have
nothing to do with the BIOS.  I'm willing to be educated on this, but I
don't get it.  Thank you.

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  15.10 swapping heavily after process exceeds 50% physical RAM

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