Johnny,
After reading about the VM issue, I concur. The previous kernel did exhibit the behavior noted in the URL you sent. Looking right now, I see a considerable difference in use / swap. The software running on the machine generally uses anwhere from 1.2 > 1.4Gb of memory, and I had noticed swap would, over time, increase, while there was still *some* memory available, but it never would use totally all of it. The application running right now is a little different from the one that runs late-night and after 16z, so I'll take a peek at it either tonight if I'm up or in the a.m. after the thing starts. I'll also note swap and its size as time progresses to see if it increases as before with free mem.
Thanks for the info.