From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 15 08:57:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA01216 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 08:57:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain.iafrica.com (root@chain.iafrica.com [196.7.74.174]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA01206 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 08:57:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain.iafrica.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA00558; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 17:55:10 +0200 (SAT) X-Authentication-Warning: chain.iafrica.com: khetan owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 17:55:09 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: "Hr.Ladavac" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: swapper In-Reply-To: <199606151528.AA168982501@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Hr.Ladavac wrote: >netscape is a known memory hog. But, if I quit out of it, the swap utilisation does NOT decrease. >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. But frequently I run out of swap; to prevent that recently I've had to restart the machine; on release, I was able to flush it by hupping it. Regards, Khetan Gajjar. --- Visit me at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ UUNet-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002