Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:47:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: When does swap decreases Message-ID: <20050620144631.F37558@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <20050620182430.GE8497@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050620141439.S36309@zoraida.natserv.net> <20050620182430.GE8497@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: > When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used blocks > of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until the process > owning them exits (even if it pages that memory back into RAM), so at > some point the system paged out 30MB of memory, some processes exited > and freed up 20MB, and you probably have some long-lived processes that > account for that remaining 10MB. Makes sense. Any way to find out which process is using the swap?
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