From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 15:37:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD3B37B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC2443E42 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF27C2B704; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 00:37:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B53106A7124; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:37:42 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:37:42 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Joseph Lephan Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap file never get used. period Message-ID: <20020829223742.GT785@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Joseph Lephan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020829171531.A1085@houston.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020829171531.A1085@houston.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 05:15:31PM -0500, 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 The 100% you're talking about is the CPU utilisation, not the memory. Swap space is for memory. So if you run a couple of big programs, you will see that your free memory gets lower and lower and at a certain time your swap space will be used. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message