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Date:      Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:03:53 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Joseph Lephan <mystical@houston.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Swap file never get used. period
Message-ID:  <20020830160352.GK6092@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20020830022915.A35824@houston.rr.com>
References:  <20020829171531.A1085@houston.rr.com> <20020830071538.GF21595@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20020830022915.A35824@houston.rr.com>

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On 2002-08-30 02:29 +0000, Joseph Lephan wrote:
> >     interesting. if you see 100%, your swap is 100% *used*
> >     actual top output:
>
> You know what i meant.
> Put simply, 100% of my swap is Available, 0% used
>
> >     Mem: 156M Active, 21M Inact, 58M Wired, 11M Cache, 35M Buf, 2548K Free
> >     Swap: 1024M Total, 80M Used, 944M Free, 7% Inuse
>
> I think that it's been clarified though. Swap is not used until Mem
> is completely tied up. Thanx for the input though

Well, that's not entirely true.  The article at

http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/

explains a little more the details of
``swap is used whenever you need more RAM'':

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