On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:39:56 -0700, Mike McMullen <mlm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Under FC1 with our load on a system with 512MB of memory it was > > not unusual to see 35MB to 100MB of swap utilized. Under FC2 > > it is 0. > > > > The system seems to perform a little fast than FC2 did. Every once and > > a while it slows to a crawl then speeds up again. This usually happens > > when memory intensive apps like SpamAssassin kick in. Never doing > > these periods do I see any swap used at all. > > > That should be the system seems to perform a little faster than FC1. Just curious what the output of "free -m" shows. I think there were some VM improvements in the kernel, which is where that really should show up. Have you turned off any other processes that occupied memory space when you ran FC1 but not now?