Why is mine using so much swap when ram is available?

On 7/12/2012 1:01 PM, JDL wrote:
> For comparison...
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> Swap:  2096472k total,      148k used
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> Jim
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> On Jul 12, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Eric Vey wrote:
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>> On 7/12/2012 12:27 PM, JDL wrote:
>>> I would recommend checking to see if your server is using swap space a lot of the time.
>> I guess it is.
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>> Here is what System Monitor says:
>> Pentium 4 @ 2.2
>> 1 GB of RAM
>> Memory = 316.3 MiB of 993.5 MiB
>> Swap = 201.4 MiB of 721.6 MiB
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>> I asked someone to send me a nice meaty email with a 5MB file attachment. CPU went from a steady 20% to 30% and back down to 20% while scanning it for viruses.
>> I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 server with KDE installed on account of graphics coming in handy sometimes.
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