Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 19:17:04 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: dex@wankers.net (Dexnation Holodream) Cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, dswartz@druber.com, dg@root.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap-leak in 2.2.5 ? Message-ID: <199804060017.TAA01675@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980405195105.4132B-100000@localhost> from Dexnation Holodream at "Apr 5, 98 08:07:19 pm"
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> > as you can see, top still reflects data cached in swap, but look at > swapinfo: > > % swapinfo > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type > /dev/sd0b 262144 40 262040 0% Interleaved > > My interpretation, here, is that the data is still cached, but that space > will be reused if I don't run GIMP again, but will stay cached in case I > need it (OR there's a bug hidden somewhere). > What you are seeing is parts of other processes on swap. FreeBSD does not gratuitiously swap unneeded pages back in only to free swap space That swap allocation that you see could be part of init or some other process that is still running. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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