Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:23:15 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: Joseph Lephan <mystical@houston.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap file never get used. period Message-ID: <200208291823.15645.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020829171531.A1085@houston.rr.com> References: <20020829171531.A1085@houston.rr.com>
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Unless processes are failing with out of memory, just be happy. Not swapping is good; swapping slows down your machine by orders of magnitude compared to doing operations in memory. Any well-designed operating system will avoid swapping whenever possible. On Thursday 29 August 2002 06:15 pm, Joseph Lephan wrote: | Upon recently installing FreeBSD, I was aware that i allocated 1 GB | to a swap partition. Now this is fine because that was what i wanted, | but it seems that when I type in 'top' at console, my swap file was | reported to at 100%, ie, none of was being used, ever. I'm just | wondering if this is due to a miscompiling of the kernel, or if there | should be some modules compiled for virtual memory, or if this is | just a plain fact of Freebsd. Greatly appreciated. :-P | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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