Are you on the kernel mailing list? Is this likely related to the known problems with VM that have been discussed there? http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0108.1/0594.html http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20010618_122.html#1 Andy On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Bob Tanner wrote: > 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 > >