We actually found that in the 2.4-20 kernel for RedHat there was a known
issue that was causing cached memory to not be reused and our box
started to swap also.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89226
This may be what you are experiencing if your using the same kernel.
Dawn Hollingsworth
Senior Director R&D
AirDefense, Inc.
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 11:03, Doug McNaught wrote:
> "Domenico Sgarbossa" <domenico(at)xtecnica(dot)com> writes:
>
> > Thanks for your advice!
> >
> > It seems that the cached memory isn't released by the system... so the
> > system begin to swap to disk!
>