"news@celticbear.com" <news@celticbear.com>,
In a message on 4 Apr 2006 07:05:48 -0700, wrote :

"> Ah, it is so nice to be able to come in in the morning, unscreensave,
"> and get right to work without delay!
"> I may have to get yet another 256MB of RAM though.
"> My top this morning:
"> top - 08:55:55 up 21:41, 6 users, load average: 0.46, 0.75, 0.80
"> Tasks: 128 total, 1 running, 127 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
"> Cpu(s): 13.6% us, 4.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 82.4% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi,
"> 0.0% si
"> Mem: 1035020k total, 1012468k used, 22552k free, 35648k
"> buffers
"> Swap: 1540088k total, 6484k used, 1533604k free, 401592k cached
">
"> 6MB of swap being used. And in my "ps aux --sort vsz" the top items are
"> programs I and services (like SMB) that I need to have open. I can't
"> find anything else to shut down (already took care of httpd and mySQL
"> for example.)
"> 6MB of swap seems OK. I'll keep an eye on it, and if it tends to climb
"> and not go down, I'll just have to deal with rebooting once every
"> couple of days or get another stick.

It is normal for a small about of swap to be used, even if there is a
plenty of physical memory. Several system daemons swap little used
bits of themselves out once the machine has be up for several hours (or
days).

">
"> Thanks all for your help!!
"> -Liam
">
">

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