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> SWAP is not necessarily a bad thing. It is mealy a simple way of moving |
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> unused code from memory so that it can be better used, ie disk caching. |
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> Swap can be bad if you have insufficient memory to run your processes. |
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> If your system has lots of disk activity, the OS will assign memory to |
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> cache the disk. This may where you memory is going. |
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> You say that your system is using perl. What else? Apache? MySQL/PgSQL? |
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> etc ... |
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I'm running interchange (http://www.icdevgroup.org), apache2, |
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mod_perl2, and mysql. I run courier-imap and postfix for email, but |
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I'm the only user. I use php only for squirrelmail. |
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- Grant |
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> All the best |
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> Simon |
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