From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 9: 4: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF9037B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:04:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D56443E3B for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:03:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a237.otenet.gr [212.205.215.237]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g7UG3u9M010671; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:03:56 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7UG3t6H014218; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:03:55 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7UG3sej014217; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:03:54 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:03:53 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Joseph Lephan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap file never get used. period Message-ID: <20020830160352.GK6092@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020829171531.A1085@houston.rr.com> <20020830071538.GF21595@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20020830022915.A35824@houston.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020830022915.A35824@houston.rr.com> X-PGP-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-Phone: +30-944-116520 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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'': -- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve -- http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message