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Date:      Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:12:27 -0700
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        freebsd-questions - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Question on Swapping
Message-ID:  <1F2C2584-A22B-41A4-A675-126993770461@lafn.org>

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I have a question about what I am seeing on several servers.  These are =
4 core machines with more than the needed memory.  Load is never above =
.5 and memory usually shows over half free.  I have never seen it even =
close to the limit (including buffers).  Basically these are lightly =
used servers.  However, top often shows after a few weeks of uptime that =
some of the unused gettys are swapped out.  I didn't really expect this =
as lack of memory is not an issue.  Is there something in FreeBSD 7 and =
8 that causes a process thats idle for very log times to get swapped =
out?  I haven't seen anything like that in the various documentation =
files, but it sure looks like thats the case.=



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