Somebody in the thread at some point said: > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 09:24 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: >> Mem: 482776k total, 475472k used, 7304k free, 29076k buffers >> Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 163588k cached > > [...] > >> This means it was using the swap partition on the hard drive. > > What swap partition? Your system doesn't have any swap(?!?). > > Your memory usage is almost completely saturated and you have *NO* swap > to fall back on. If it hasn't already then you're kernel freemem killer > is very soon going to start cutting the legs from beneath random > programs all over your process list. He has plenty of memory though, 163MB of it is "free" and in use as disk cache for want of anything better to do with it. If the top is representative, it is nothing to do with lack of memory, although you're right he has no swap enabled. Next time it starts being slow do the top again and try to see which processes are using the most CPU and confirm that there is some reasonable amount of "free" memory (free + cached in top). ntpd shouldn't cause any freezes. -Andy
