My work PC is fairly similar - Dell Optiplex 755, 4GB RAM, karmic 64 bit, winxp VM (768M RAM, used only for outlook and VMware Infrastructure Client), huge swapping issues. I find that turning off swap helps, apart from that it then results in my Firefox receiving attention from the OOM killer every few days. :P
A vmstat excerpt (hmm, need fixed width font): procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 1 6 483208 619788 17516 1185036 204 116 720 380 658 1044 6 2 0 92 0 6 483520 621448 17500 1183048 56 336 532 1144 669 1194 10 2 0 89 0 8 483760 622348 17496 1182876 76 280 480 1320 644 1013 9 0 1 90 0 7 484068 624580 17468 1180412 84 392 616 1160 686 1236 9 1 4 87 0 5 484528 625820 17412 1179828 0 468 744 1044 788 1433 7 1 0 92 0 6 485164 628192 17348 1178340 8 640 796 1700 861 1488 5 1 0 94 0 5 485204 634640 17284 1177020 0 488 628 1416 770 1366 4 0 0 96 0 7 485292 635764 17272 1176152 0 88 208 588 408 955 1 0 0 99 0 7 485496 632540 17248 1175464 64 216 676 736 637 1307 7 0 0 92 0 7 485612 628704 17232 1174932 244 128 1132 388 692 1610 12 1 0 88 0 4 485824 641724 17208 1173388 44 220 572 860 645 1289 9 1 0 89 0 5 486516 646972 17168 1171724 48 712 632 1288 685 1223 10 1 1 88 0 4 487428 650088 17156 1169656 32 964 636 2400 717 1353 8 2 3 86 2 5 487604 650832 17148 1169304 0 192 596 1052 613 1138 11 1 0 88 0 5 487708 651328 17116 1168868 36 112 376 688 517 1116 9 0 23 68 2 4 488004 656032 17104 1168136 140 352 840 1392 654 1144 10 1 0 88 0 5 488372 661116 17044 1164024 24 424 412 1392 581 1004 10 2 0 89 2 4 488688 666084 17052 1163128 172 356 504 1068 540 1042 12 1 0 87 0 4 489008 667712 17012 1161992 0 336 408 1412 567 948 12 2 1 85 0 4 489448 669076 16976 1161392 8 460 264 1136 451 843 10 1 0 89 Seeing swapout activity with free>swpd is a frequent occurrence. (BTW: I'd swapoff the slow swap. swap=RAM*2 probably made more sense when hard drives were a thousandth of the speed of RAM rather than the ten thousandth they are today :P) -- system thrashes even with lots of free memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/523024 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs