Hi all,

This is something that has had me scratching my head for a while:

I have 1GB of memory in my machine but still it insists on using loads 
of swap. Current usage is (from top):

Mem:   1035792k total,   390680k used,   645112k free
Swap:  2096440k total,   250952k used,  1845488k free

Would it not be better to use all that free memory before going out to 
the hard drive?

Have I missed something?

Cheers,
Rob

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