02.10.2010 03:50, Dmitry Golubev wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for reply. Well, although there is plenty of RAM left (about > 100MB), some swap space was used during the operation: > > Mem: 8193472k total, 8089788k used, 103684k free, 5768k buffers > Swap: 11716412k total, 36636k used, 11679776k free, 103112k cached If you want to see swapping, run vmstat with, say, 5-second interval: $ vmstat 5 Amount of swap used is interesting, but amount of swapins/swapouts per secound is much more so. JFYI. /mjt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html