Quoting Jay Kline (list at slushpupie.com):
> I agree..  I have found that even with 384M memory I almost never touch swap,
> and that is with several X servers running (those little memory hogs)..  128M
> swap is what I have, I found anything more than that is wasted space.

% free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        516952     438608      78344     176652      75208     161940
-/+ buffers/cache:     201460     315492
Swap:       546048     466048     538300

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