>> Just one more piece of information: a simple recompile isn't what >> has fixed the problem every time, the recompile has involved an >> upgrade to 2.6.16 as well > There is a bad patch to the vm that makes the box use swap even > when there is free RAM space available. Maybe that is what you are > seeing. I don't think so, swap usage is only 440k > The fix will be in the 4.4 release kernel. What kernel version will be in 4.4? I can look this up myself too if someone can kindly give me a pointer :)