avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 0.35 0.00 0.39 27.75 0.04 71.46 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util .. dm-1 0.00 0.00 1.37 0.95 10.97 7.61 8.00 1.08 466.65 4.58 1.06 [root@clients webgen]# ls -l /dev/mapper/* .. lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Dec 26 13:54 /dev/mapper/vg_1192521767-lv_swap -> ../dm-1 Looks like it is trying to write a lot of stuff to swap - but its not a large amount of data: Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/dm-1 partition 2621436 500044 -1 How would having RAM not reduce this? Any help appreciated. Cheers Piers