Excessive Swapping

[Alex Neuman]

It's too little. Besides, running MS + Postfix causes swapping! ;-P

On Apr 7, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Gregory Wong wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a server that has 256MB of RAM. It is running Postfix, MS,  
> MailScanner-MRTG on Ubuntu Server. I have noticed recently that it  
> has been swapping a lot.
>
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers      
> cached
> Mem:           256        204         51          0           
> 0         18
> -/+ buffers/cache:        185         70
> Swap:          511        152        359
>
> I am looking to implement MailWatch but am concerned that the server  
> doesn’t have an adequate amount of memory. Is this excessive  
> swapping normal? Should I be upgrading the RAM?
>
> Also, my company got hit on Saturday with nearly 1600 spam messages  
> (which is unusual since we only get about 200-300 spam per day).  
> Besides running MS and the default SA rules, what other things do  
> you recommend I configure to help combat the spam?
>
> Thanks.
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