We actually found that in the 2.4-20 kernel for RedHat there was a known issue that was causing cached memory to not be reused and our box started to swap also.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89226 This may be what you are experiencing if your using the same kernel. Dawn Hollingsworth Senior Director R&D AirDefense, Inc. On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 11:03, Doug McNaught wrote: > "Domenico Sgarbossa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks for your advice! > > > > It seems that the cached memory isn't released by the system... so the > > system begin to swap to disk! > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster