Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 23:14:21 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Brian Campbell <brianc@pobox.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2-stable swap usage? Message-ID: <199709041344.XAA01154@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Sep 1997 12:04:03 %2B0930." <199709040234.MAA00822@word.smith.net.au>
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> > The simple answer is that once swap is allocated to a process, it is > never freed. You have, in the case above, 24M worth of text which at > some stage has been swapped out, and thus has had swap allocated to it. > It doesn't mean you have 24M worth of swap currently "in use". Sorry, that should be "pages ... have", not "text ... has". mike
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