Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 11:37:54 +0000 () From: Pedro A M Vazquez <vazquez@IQM.Unicamp.BR> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS exporting... (fwd) Message-ID: <199601101137.LAA19274@kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br>
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I believe this should be in the FAQ, shouldn't it? Terry Lambert said: > > > p.p.s. Why does FreeBSD consume far more swap space than Linux? > > It doesn't. You might mean "why does my swap seem full?". If that > is what you really meant, it's because putting stuff in swap rather > than discarding it makes it faster to recover than if the pager had > to go through the file system to pull in clean (unmodified) blocks > from an executable. > > The actual amount of dirty pages that you can have in core at once > is not reduced; the clean pages are displaced as necessary. > > (note: the above is from memory; there was some talk of modifying the > reporting system so as to hide the clean pages as "not present"). > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > Pedro
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