> I can't easily check before fossil is active, but venti takes a long > time to start and by the time the machine is "ready", memory is full > and half of swap is in use :-( During "snap -a" load, context > switching and interrupts tend to swing wildly and swap is often being > accessed (it's on IDE and the drive light can only mean swap access, I > do have DMA active :-)
swapping goes nonlinear in a hurry. how much memory do you have? - erik