On 7/21/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 12:10 -0500, Larry Vaden wrote: > > On 7/21/06, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: > > > Larry Vaden spake the following on 7/21/2006 8:05 AM: > > > ><snip> > > > OK, I agree that where there is smoke there is not always fire, but I > > still prefer a smoke-free environment. > > I quit buying last 8/18/05. Had 35 since. Used to be 2+ packs per day. I > haven't quit, just decided to smoke less. > > When you check out that thread I mentioned, you'll see how. I did *not* > use the "swappiness" thingy and I have 8k used ATM. Max I've seen > recently is 44K (however updatedb and makewhatis running together will > get it to 144M or so on this X workstation). Here's what got my curiosity up (and wondering why the swap'd item(s) didn't eventually expire); the first machine is running sendmail, the others are running postfix. Mem: 1025076k total, 602508k used, 422568k free, 42204k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 600k used, 2031008k free, 506496k cached Mem: 1295916k total, 719596k used, 576320k free, 70192k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 441984k cached Mem: 1295916k total, 707076k used, 588840k free, 127812k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 327920k cached Mem: 1295916k total, 604212k used, 691704k free, 91576k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 159620k cached Mem: 2075040k total, 1379836k used, 695204k free, 40852k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 1239196k cached rgds/ldv