Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:54:46 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Illogical usage of swap Message-ID: <20050316125446.GA7986@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <20050316133153.M2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> References: <20050316123901.U2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> <444qfbpydd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050316133153.M2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl>
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On 2005-03-16 13:36, "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> wrote: >On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: >>"Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> writes: >>>Mem: 479M Active, 2470M Inact, 337M Wired, 101M Cache, 199M Buf, 5468K Free >>>Swap: 8192M Total, 116K Used, 8192M Free >> >> Not a problem. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM > > Hmm, yeah I should have included what I've actually read in the > handbook and elsewhere. In fact I did read that exerpt you quoted the > URL for above sometime previously, when it was quoted in another > thread on the list. > > Free memory (or the lack thereof) isn't the issue though. > > The issue is this: > Swap: 8192M Total, 116K Used, 8192M Free > and that's the piece of the puzzle that has us all utterly baffled. > > No way in creation this box should be swapping. Do you, by any chance, have vm.swap_idle_enabled set to 1?
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