Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 16:04:09 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap on SSD Message-ID: <20180206160409.633ab15a.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> In-Reply-To: <23160.43027.295357.808217@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <26877DEB-034F-422B-918F-2A0D1C381537@kreme.com> <bfd82845ece3604806329336c58610ed@roundcube.fjl.org.uk> <23160.43027.295357.808217@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Hi, On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:53:07 -0500 Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: > Frank Leonhardt writes: > > > FreeBSD doesn't actually swap these days; uses demand paging. > > Possible evidence to the contrary: > On a system running: > > FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r326723: Sat Dec 9 12:30:04 EST 2017 amd64 > > top shows: > > last pid: 57956; load averages: 2.02, 2.01, 1.95 up > 57+19:09:04 13:49:29 132 processes: 3 running, 129 sleeping > CPU: 38.7% user, 0.4% nice, 7.9% system, 0.0% interrupt, 53.0% idle > Mem: 2264M Active, 2303M Inact, 1478M Laundry, 1525M Wired, 761M Buf, > 115M Free Swap: 17G Total, 996M Used, 16G Free, 5% Inuse > > So ... is "Swap" an incorrect label, or is actual swapping > going on? > (And is there a utility which will list the swap area by > owning process?) > I have the same when putting to much load on my old machine. It is just a matter of RAM. Either you spend the money on RAM or on SSD. Erich
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