Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 15:34:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz@druber.com> Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, dg@root.com, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap-leak in 2.2.5 ? Message-ID: <199804062234.PAA00765@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Apr 1998 18:20:46 EDT." <3.0.5.32.19980405182046.009137d0@mail.kersur.net>
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> It was actually kind of embarrassing. I convinced a local ISP to start > converting their servers from Linux (what I recommended a few years ago > when I didn't know different :)) One of the admins (who has some Linux > experience) asked me why it was using swap. I gave the canonical reply. > He asked the question I just posed. I had no good reply :( The simplest answer to this is "because the system has found a better use for memory than holding the data". It can't throw it away (it's data, after all), so it parks it in the swap partition. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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