On 7/21/06, William L. Maltby BillsCentOS@triad.rr.com wrote:
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 10:05 -0500, Larry Vaden wrote:
Mem: 2075040k total, 1331452k used, 743588k free, 50896k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 1191532k cached
SunFire X2100 running Centos 4.3.
Linux maytag1.texoma.net 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL #1 Fri Jul 7 19:24:57 CDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
To answer your question: because it is there! ;-) And it can!
Seriously, a recent thread involving this is in the archives. Short ans: "swappiness" parameter can be used to reduce it and there is a "bug" that disappears with U4 (IIRC). Also, some config settings can reduce it.
Now we have two threads on it. >:-)
<humor> So, how many threads before it can go in the faq? </humor>
Seriously, did I miss it or is Centos@centos.org not covered by Google groups?
If not covered by Google groups, why (or more positively, can we change that)?
rgds/ldv