> I don't think you can tell much from this output because of the usage > of the disk cache. You would need to run a command like "ps fauxw" and > examine the memory usage of individual processes.
I concur. Look at what is actually using memory on your system, try to figure out why it needs so much memory, and then try to predict what will happen if your web traffic or other services get 10x the load. Will your web/app server spawn a bunch more processes and cause you to swap out heavily? As aluded to by others, nowadays swap is almost useless, unless you're interested in doing hibernation. The gap between memory and hard drive speed is so large that swapping on a server is almost like running out of memory. You never want to do it when it counts. HTH, tim _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
