so, basically, if I'm seeing 3 times as many page ins as page outs, I'm not doin so well, eh? not just as simple as seeing 1 number, and equating "High" with "bad" and "low" with "good"? On Jun 17, 2008, at 8:39 PM, Ed Gould wrote: > Page outs tend to hurt a little, page ins tend to hurt a lot > If you need a page that has just been paged out the system can be > sluggish (it depends on which page(s) ) have been paged out.