Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:29:42 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Illogical usage of swap Message-ID: <20050316152736.G2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> In-Reply-To: <44fyyvmzxt.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20050316123901.U2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> <444qfbpydd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org><44fyyvmzxt.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Mar 16 at 09:24, Lowell Gilbert then said: > "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> writes: > >> On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: > >>> 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. > > The same logic applies to some extent, though. > >> No way in creation this box should be swapping. > > I have noticed that FreeBSD 5.x is swapping out small amounts of > memory in situations (as near I can tell; it is quite hard to be sure > that the situation is really identical) where 4.x was not. I haven't > really tried to track down exactly what's going on, but it's always > been less than the text segment of any task in the system, so I was > pretty sure I wasn't seeing a problem. Except (if I'm following you sequentially, and if I'm not, then apologies!) this is FreeBSD 4.11. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven Wed Mar 16 15:29:00 CET 2005
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