Thx folks! taking note... J.J. William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > >>On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 08:49 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> >> >>>William Warren wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>set swappiness to zero. That will force the machine to use all >>>>physical ram before swapping for the most part. Also i have heard >>>>that xorg has a memory leak. I do not know if that has been addressed >>>>yet and that could be the cause of your issue. >>>> >>>> >>>Could you elaborate on that (swappiness) just a bit :-) ? Is this a >>>generic Linux setting, or RH/CentOS specific ? TIA >>> >>>A memory leak *WOULD* cause this kind of thing. SGI had such a problem a >>>few years back in some version or other of their (released) IRIX OS, & >>>X.org just got back into the game, so that's fairly plausible as well. >>> >>> >>> >>swappiness is a 2.6 kernel setting that allows you to change the >>behavior of swap memory. >> >>There are a couple good links in this article: >>http://kerneltrap.org/node/3202?from=150&comments_per_page=50 >> >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> > > Thanks !!!! > >> >> >>-- >> William A. Mahaffey III >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Remember, ignorance is bliss, but >> willful ignorance is LIBERALISM !!!! >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Linux smarteyebox.stigmatedbrain.net 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL i686 GNU/Linux 18:00:01 up 1:08, 13 users, load average: 2.05, 2.12, 1.94 --------------------------------------------------------- With a gentleman I try to be a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. -- Otto von Bismark