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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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