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To: Jeff Gray <jwgray@netbox.com>
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Subject: Re: Swap size recommnedations? (fwd) 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:18:27 -0700
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>Thanks to David for his explanations.
>
>I am using 2.2.6 and. without adding additional applications or
>adding opening additional windows under xterm, my swap space slowly 
>fills up.  Day one at 5%, day three at 35% inuse.
>
>Any way to clear this other than a restart?  Hardware problem?

   You didn't mention how much "35%" is. The system will slowly page out
data in order to optimize for filesystem caching.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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