On Dec 14, 2007 1:33 AM, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@xxxxxxx> 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. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
