Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 20:21:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Dexnation Holodream <dex@wankers.net> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> 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: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980405202039.4132C-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199804060017.TAA01675@dyson.iquest.net>
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oh...I was talking about top showing 104k, as opposed to swapinfo showing 40k. -Jon On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > > > > 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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