Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 07:39:48 +0530 From: Chirag Kantharia <chyrag@slashetc.net> To: dan@dan.emsphone.com Cc: freebsd-question@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap space not utilized... Message-ID: <20000714073948.A6384@slashetc.net> In-Reply-To: <20000713162646.A13922@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20000714022739.A4984@slashetc.net> <20000713162646.A13922@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 04:26:46PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: | In the last episode (Jul 14), Chirag Kantharia said: | > mercury# swapinfo | > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type | > /dev/ad0s1b 266992 0 266992 0% Interleaved | How much RAM do you have? It's possible that your active amount of | memory has never gotten bigger than your amount of RAM. I've got 512MB | in my box and have a whole 26MB of swap used, after 54 days of uptime. I had used 3.3 RELEASE before; using that I got to know the FreeBSD used swap heavily. I think I've read this somewhere in FAQ too. I have 128MB RAM while swap space is 260MB (all defaults). | If you want an easy way to allocate a chunk of memory, in the hopes | that it'll force something to get paged out, "dd if=/dev/zero | of=/dev/null bs=200m count=1" might work. I just tried that, and my | swap usage jumped to 87MB. This did work. I guess I don't have much to worry about. chyrag. -- Chirag Kantharia <chyrag@slashetc.net> http://slashetc.net/chyrag/ GCS/IT d- s-:->: a? C++++$ UBLS++++$ P++++(++)$ L++ E- W++ N--@ K--- w--- M->-- PE++ PGP->+ R* b+ DI+ D+ G++ e++ h* r-- !z+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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