Mark Cullen wrote:
> 
> 256MB in there, but I think a whopping 2MB of it is allocated to the 
> onboard video (which I don't use, but can't disable).
> 
> Well, is `systat 1 vmstat` good enough? If so, while it's idling I am 
> seeing:
> 
> ---
>     3 users    Load  1.08  1.05  1.05                  Fri Jul 14 18:16:59
> 
> Proc:r  d  s  w    Csw   Trp   Sys  Int  Sof   Flt            PAGING 
> SWAPPING
>           17        86    11 13178  339  152    18            in  out 
>  in  out
> ---
> 
> 18 per second is that? Doesn't seem unusually high to me?!
> 

I have just noticed that the "Sys" column seems to alternate between 
~5000 and ~10000-20000 every second. Perhaps this could be and indicator 
of the possible cause? Not that I have any idea what the "Sys" column is 
an indicator of? System calls per second?

-- 
Mark Cullen <mark.r.cullen@gmail.com>