William Warren wrote: > yes i did. The 2.4x Rh kernels actually aren't right in their swapping > behavior. it really nailed my samba server here at the house and caused > massive swapping and load issues on a friend's gaming server. i don't > know what it is about RH's 2.4x kernels but they swap and won't give the > cache memory back. I have more than 6 ipcop firewalls based on 2.4 > kernels(not RH) and they won't swap unless you actually exhaust physical > memory. The issue is the RH 2.4x kernels which for some reason continue > to swap even with 500 MEGS of cache memory available to take back. 2.6x > runs much better and actually obeys the swappiness commands. Even the > various patches done by Rh on the 2.4x kernel never reduces this behavior. I don't think I've seen that. Here is a 'top' from an RH7.3 box whose uptime counter has rolled a couple of times so it has actually been running several years. 10:57am up 317 days, 6:56, 6 users, load average: 0.07, 0.10, 0.09 213 processes: 210 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 1 stopped CPU states: 5.1% user, 2.9% system, 0.0% nice, 91.8% idle Mem: 2065404K av, 1988360K used, 77044K free, 0K shrd, 570124K buff Swap: 1331128K av, 204848K used, 1126280K free 1158784K cached That doesn't seem that bad and it's a 2.4.20-18.7 kernel. It's not very busy now because it is a weekend. I never see a lot of swap-in happening even when it is busy. -- Les Mikesell