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              pgpgin/s
                     Total number of kilobytes the system paged in  from
 disk
                     per second.

              pgpgout/s
                     Total  number  of  kilobytes the system paged out
to disk
                     per second.


% swap used is steady at 1.05%



> It doesn't seem to be I/O depraved either
> (mine show worst iowait but I only have a single disk).

This is a single raid 0 array, IDE 7200 RPM.

> 
> What processes are displayed by top when this happens?
> 

Can't tell right now, i'll check next time such a burst happens.  We are
running with 10 child processes on a HT 2.8 P4 with 2 GB RAM.

Here is a sample of 'vmstat 5' when the load was ~ 7.

procs                      memory      swap          io     system
   cpu
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy
id wa
10  3  43196  98388 198936 629980    0    0     1     1    1     0  0  1
 0  1
11  3  43196 138004 198956 617896    0    0     6   573  193   295 73 27
 0  0
 7  1  43196 130760 198976 612512    0    0     2   394  178   516 83 17
 0  0
 9  3  43196 147580 198980 624544    0    0     0  2716  145   328 86 14
 0  0
 5  4  43196 151496 200456 623460    0    0     4  2714  190   606 84 16
 0  0


Maybe we'd need a more powerful CPU?


> Denis
> 

Merci bien Denis ;)
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