On 7/21/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at 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 at centos.org not covered by Google groups? If not covered by Google groups, why (or more positively, can we change that)? rgds/ldv