> I have noticed with my current kernel that after the system
> is idle for
> a while, say 10 hours or
> so, that everything seems to be swapped out to disk. So when
> I come in
> the next morning
> it starts swapping everything like crazy in from disk.
Probably what is happening is that in the middle of the night,
your distribution runs a cron job like "slocate" or "medusa"
which scans through your hard drive. Other distros do security
checks for world-writable files and many other things...
This heavy read activity fills up a lot of buffers and causes
your apps to be swapped out.
Torrey
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