On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 03:19:51PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote:
> And moreover, I could see it starting to use swap space, which
> simply should not happen with the kind of minimal load the machine is
> under.
It's quite common (at least in Linux, don't know about other
unices) to use swap space even if huge amounts of memory
are unused yet. In most cases this will increase the overall
performance of a system because memory pages that are not used
very often will get swapped out immediately and not just-in-time
for another process to allocate all the memory it needs.
Andre
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