A little confused as to why MySql is swapping when there is more than
enough real memory still available on the server. I'm having a
serious problem with a production server running out of swap space
and in turn causing mysql to crash with the following error message.
According to the TOP report, there is more than 14G available to the server.

Error:
Version: '4.1.11-max-log' socket:
'/export/ctrl/mysqladmin/mysql.sock' port: 3306 MySQL Community
Edition - Experimental (GPL)
061013 12:39:47 InnoDB: Error: cannot allocate 73919464 bytes of
InnoDB: memory with malloc! Total allocated memory
InnoDB: by InnoDB 595973856 bytes. Operating system errno: 11
InnoDB: Check if you should increase the swap file or
InnoDB: ulimits of your operating system.
InnoDB: On FreeBSD check you have compiled the OS with
InnoDB: a big enough maximum process size.
InnoDB: We keep retrying the allocation for 60 seconds...
061013 12:39:50 InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally!
InnoDB: Starting crash recovery.
InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files...
InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite
InnoDB: buffer...

Top on server:
load averages: 0.11, 0.12, 0.13 11:37:55
140 processes: 138 sleeping, 1 stopped, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 99.1% idle, 0.2% user, 0.6% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 32G real, 14G free, 30G swap in use, 145M swap free

PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
2556 mysql 19 59 0 954M 735M sleep 23.5H 0.14% mysqld
20373 mysql 31 59 0 954M 706M sleep 78:23 0.13% mysqld
27559 mysql 47 59 0 1011M 990M sleep 26.6H 0.09% mysqld
2049 mysql 18 59 0 943M 701M sleep 16.8H 0.07% mysqld
2810 mysql 26 59 0 947M 754M sleep 766:37 0.05% mysqld
2370 mysql 24 59 0 963M 825M sleep 31.7H 0.01% mysqld
29472 mysql 1 59 0 3144K 2024K cpu/11 0:00 0.01% top
2432 mysql 20 59 0 952M 732M sleep 800:57 0.01% mysqld
22967 mysql 31 59 0 934M 139M sleep 5:02 0.01% mysqld
2742 mysql 18 59 0 947M 722M sleep 17.6H 0.00% mysqld
2494 mysql 20 59 0 945M 728M sleep 782:58 0.00% mysqld
2880 mysql 26 59 0 972M 828M sleep 910:23 0.00% mysqld

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
CL