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Why does MySQL use all of memory and goes into swap when doing lots of delayed inserts?

We have a database server running Centos 5.6 64bit 64Gb of RAM. The server is idle most of the time. However, every hour it gets a lot of DELAYED inserts. Up to 3 mil INSERTs per hour into a MyISAM ...