> Using swap is not a bad thing. It means that the system is intelligent > enough to move to disk any processes that don't need to be in memory. > Thrashing is of course another thing entirely.
Using swap means you don't have enough real physical memory to do what you're trying to do, and so your system has to use disk space as if it were memory. And since disk space is ... what, 100x? 1000x? slower than real RAM, I'd say having to use swap any more than occasionally would be a bad thing, since it would vastly slow you down. A little is OK.
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