From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 13:02:25 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0060416A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:02:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from t-x.dignus.nl (t-x.dignus.nl [83.219.88.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7289343D48 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:02:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost.dignus.nl [127.0.0.1]) by t-x.dignus.nl (Safehouse) with ESMTP id 42A9F1A6EF; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:59:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (fia148-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.148]) by t-x.dignus.nl (Safehouse) with ESMTP id 617961A6E1; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:59:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (localhost.kozy-kabin.nl [127.0.0.1]) by kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 328EE61F3; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:02:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (colin@localhost)j2GD26JG063631; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:02:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:02:02 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" To: Giorgos Keramidas In-Reply-To: <20050316125446.GA7986@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> Message-ID: <20050316140047.S2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> References: <20050316123901.U2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> <444qfbpydd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050316125446.GA7986@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by RemSPAMd at ph230.plushosting.nl cc: Lowell Gilbert cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Illogical usage of swap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:02:25 -0000 On Mar 16 at 14:54, Giorgos Keramidas asked: > On 2005-03-16 13:36, "Colin J. Raven" wrote: >> On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: >>> "Colin J. Raven" 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? No, it isn't: gonzo# sysctl -a |grep vm.swap_idle_enabled vm.swap_idle_enabled: 0 Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven Wed Mar 16 14:01:00 CET 2005