Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 15:21:33 -0700 From: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 13-CURRENT: several GB swap being used despite plenty of free RAM Message-ID: <2030527.5gTYqTD1LS@photon.int.bluestop.org> In-Reply-To: <1748688.u6MfGjpqfb@photon.int.bluestop.org> References: <1748688.u6MfGjpqfb@photon.int.bluestop.org>
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On Saturday, 17 November 2018 14:44:41 MST Rebecca Cran via freebsd-hackers wrote: > Quitting firefox caused the swap usage to drop to just 460MB. I don't > understand why it would decide to swap out so much, especially since I have > vm.swap_idle_enabled set to 0. Of course it was because just before looking at top, I'd been running something that used up all the memory. I'd run "grep -rHn" and it had wanted to use over 120GB memory, which caused all the swapouts. -- Rebecca
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