Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:46:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Gray <jwgray@netbox.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Swap size recommnedations? (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980814094147.14216A-100000@netbox.com> In-Reply-To: <199808141618.JAA26929@implode.root.com>
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Thanks, from top at the time given, last pid: 4008; load averages: 0.29, 0.10, 0.03 09:41:23 48 processes: 1 running, 47 sleeping CPU states: 2.3% user, 0.0% nice, 1.9% system, 0.8% interrupt, 94.9% idle Mem: 31M Active, 8796K Inact, 13M Wired, 7104K Cache, 7596K Buf, 2280K Free Swap: 150M Total, 60M Used, 90M Free, 40% Inuse Here is the output a few hours earlier last pid: 3808; load averages: 0.00, 0.14, 0.33 04:57:51 48 processes: 1 running, 47 sleeping CPU states: 0.8% user, 0.0% nice, 1.2% system, 0.4% interrupt, 97.7% idle Mem: 27M Active, 12M Inact, 13M Wired, 7324K Cache, 7606K Buf, 2348K Free Swap: 150M Total, 58M Used, 92M Free, 38% Inuse and, just one more, about 24 hours earlier last pid: 2698; load averages: 0.31, 0.39, 0.40 05:11:29 47 processes: 1 running, 46 sleeping CPU states: 4.7% user, 0.0% nice, 4.3% system, 0.4% interrupt, 90.7% idle Mem: 28M Active, 12M Inact, 13M Wired, 7032K Cache, 7443K Buf, 2308K Free Swap: 150M Total, 32M Used, 118M Free, 22% Inuse With appreciation Jeff On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, David Greenman wrote: > >Thanks to David for his explanations. > > > >I am using 2.2.6 and. without adding additional applications or > >adding opening additional windows under xterm, my swap space slowly > >fills up. Day one at 5%, day three at 35% inuse. > > > >Any way to clear this other than a restart? Hardware problem? > > You didn't mention how much "35%" is. The system will slowly page out > data in order to optimize for filesystem caching. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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