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Date:      Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:29:36 +0100
From:      "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
Cc:        Zbigniew Szalbot <zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: virtual memory management
Message-ID:  <45B297D0.4060109@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070120221021.GA63135@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
References:  <60131.192.168.11.7.1169279847.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> <20070120221021.GA63135@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>

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> Don't forget that the system also pages to swap space and it takes the
> attitude of parking as much as possible out there in case it comes in
> to demand again.  Ten if it really needs the space for something, it 
> invalidates the oldest stuff and uses that space.
> 
> So, you should really expect that your swap space should be 
> nearly maxed all the time if things are working well.

If this is the case something is really wrong on my system:

Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

either top doesn't show the precautionary swapping or this is not happening.



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