Greetings all;

I'd been running the 3 axis sim here for a day or so, using it for code 
development of a routine to carve the ebody screw cover buttons out of a 
sheet of ebony.  That I have working well I believe.  Next is an old 
straight flute, single flute dull carbide mill converted into a 
roundover, but I am cold (in the low teens & a good breeze, so wind chill 
is well below zero) & snow bound (8") ATM, so I've not been out of the 
house but will probably see about that later today.

This morning while touring the machines health with htop after 3 days of 
up time, I found it was about 50 megs into swap on an 8Gb of dram 
machine.  Prior to the wheezy install, I had given up on the default 
kernel from the previous 1.04.4 LTS install because without the PAE, it 
only saw about 3Gb of my memory and would be a gigabyte into swap and 
running like a snail in 3 days of uptime. That was of course a PITA, so 
several months ago I built a 3.16.0 kernel with PAE.  It had its bugs, 
but using swap when it wasn't needed was not one of them.  I could run a 
couple months worth of uptime and swap was never touched.

Now this custom kernel from the lcnc wheezy install IS using swap again, 
while htop says its only useing a gigabyte of main ram. In 3 days of 
uptime? I find that strange as I have not yet configured some of the 
helper scripts I use, so the process count is just north of 100, while a 
reboot to the previous disk that I've been using for years, shows about 
450 processes loaded. Most are far less than .1% of cpu time.

Why the swappiness of this kernel?

Linux coyote 3.4-9-rtai-686-pae #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 3.4.55-4linuxcnc 
i686 GNU/Linux

Thanks guys.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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