On Dec 14, 2007 1:33 AM, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com> wrote:
> I kept looking at the io columns and didn't even think of the swap
> partition. It's true that it's moving quite erratically but I won't say
> that it's really thrashing.
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 503 498 4 0 3 287
> -/+ buffers/cache: 207 295
> Swap: 2527 328 2199
>
> (YEP, I know I'm RAM starved on this machine)
Good lord, my laptop has more memory than that. :)
What Tom said, buy some more RAM. Also, look at turning down the
swappiness setting as well.
