> I hope I am not being too picky here but it seems to me that swap should not 
> be used at all if there is ANY RAM that can be used in it's place available.  

Not necessarily the case.  A process that is mostly idle should be swapped
out to disk, because that means a process that is not idle can request
memory faster (since it minimizes the chance that it will need to swap an
in-memory program to disk to free up RAM).

Wes

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