> Here is a free report for everyone BTW, you'll enjoy this.  I admit it's a
> weird situation.  I'm trying newer kernels as I write this.
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        257176     238112      19064      69184      91992      69844
> -/+ buffers/cache:      76276     180900
> Swap:       130748          0     130748
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        515848     482776      33072      76616     176136     210868
> -/+ buffers/cache:      95772     420076
> Swap:       261496          0     261496
> 

it will only swap if necessary.  notice you have 420076 (420Megs) as
buffers/cache.  it will usually start swapping when REAL memory use (not
buffers/cache) gets to the 66-75% level of total ram. (at least thats what
happens on my 64 meg and 128 meg systems.)

Dave

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