On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 08:23:18PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >CPU states:  2.7% user,  0.0% nice, 96.4% system,  0.9% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> >Memory: 27M Act, 12M Inact, 132K Wired, 1800K Exec, 12M File, 1208K Free
> >Swap: 128M Total, 5472K Used, 123M Free
> >
> >  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
> >25046 root      61    0    22M   22M RUN      215:36 90.72% 90.72% cc1
> >
> 
> Is your machine swapping all the time?

Hmm.. maybe.. although systat vmstat doesn't show any paging.

> send us a dozen lines of vmstat 1 output....

metso# vmstat 1
 procs   memory     page                       disk faults      cpu
 r b w   avm   fre  flt  re  pi   po   fr   sr s0   in   sy  cs us sy id
 1 0 0 31812  2572   92   0   0    0    0    0  1  256   26  15 26 53 21
 1 0 0 31812  2572  100   0   0    0    0    0  0  315   13  19  6 94  0
 1 0 0 31812  2572  114   0   0    0    0    0  0  338   13  21  4 96  0
 1 0 0 31816  2568  113   0   0    0    0    0  0  338   14  19  3 97  0
 1 0 0 31816  2568  114   0   0    0    0    0  0  339   13  22  4 96  0
 1 0 0 31816  2568  114   0   0    0    0    0  0  336   13  20  2 98  0
 1 0 0 31816  2568  114   0   0    0    0    0  0  337   13  20  5 95  0
 1 0 0 31816  2568  114   0   0    0    0    0  5  364   13  23  4 96  0
 1 0 0 31820  2564  114   0   0    0    0    0  4  339   14  20  3 97  0
 1 0 0 31820  2564  116   0   0    0    0    0  0  343   13  21  1 99  0
 1 0 0 31820  2564  114   0   0    0    0    0  0  337   13  19  4 96  0
 1 0 0 31820  2564  110   0   0    0    0    0  0  328   13  22  4 96  0

  -jm