Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 17:28:20 +0200 (MESZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: swapper Message-ID: <199606151528.AA168982501@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960615013208.9151A-100000@chain.iafrica.com> from "Khetan Gajjar" at Jun 15, 96 01:33:30 am
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In his e-mail Khetan Gajjar wrote: > Hi again. > > Some more detailed info for you : > > [chain] ~$ swapinfo > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type > /dev/wd1s1b 44128 34880 9184 79% Interleaved > [chain] ~$ sudo kill -1 0 > Hangup > [chain] ~$ swapinfo > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type > /dev/wd1s1b 44128 34880 9184 79% Interleaved > [chain] ~$ > > I am doing very little on the machine; all I have open is three xterms, > fvwm95, netscape, the xconsole and pine. The load average is 0.37, > and the machine (a 486 dx4/120) has 32mb ram and 1gig disk space. netscape is a known memory hog. OTOH, BSD uses LRU for swapping out, so that disk cache has precedence over not recently used data. This is (IMHO) a GoodThing(TM). This is what "fully merged VM and buffer cache" is all about. It helps a lot under heavier load, and disturbs not under light loads. /Marino
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