Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:37:42 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Joseph Lephan <mystical@houston.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap file never get used. period Message-ID: <20020829223742.GT785@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20020829171531.A1085@houston.rr.com> References: <20020829171531.A1085@houston.rr.com>
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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
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