> Here is a free report for everyone BTW, you'll enjoy this. I admit it's a
> weird situation. I'm trying newer kernels as I write this.
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 257176 238112 19064 69184 91992 69844
> -/+ buffers/cache: 76276 180900
> Swap: 130748 0 130748
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 515848 482776 33072 76616 176136 210868
> -/+ buffers/cache: 95772 420076
> Swap: 261496 0 261496
>
it will only swap if necessary. notice you have 420076 (420Megs) as
buffers/cache. it will usually start swapping when REAL memory use (not
buffers/cache) gets to the 66-75% level of total ram. (at least thats what
happens on my 64 meg and 128 meg systems.)
Dave