Code:
Mem:    524424k total,   469368k used,    55056k free,     2392k buffers
Swap:  1064364k total,   286824k used,   777540k free,    54620k cached
empegbbs DB size: 400.49 MB


I'm going to have to find some way to slim down the memory usage on the VM. Once I have time to think about such things anyhow. Basically the DB is too big to all be in memory, I/O on this particular VM provider is not the quickest thing in the world, and thus when swap is used, it's extra, horribly slow.