Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:38:44 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Subject: Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ... Message-ID: <449CB3C4.2060509@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20060623225437.C1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060623172557.H1114@ganymede.hub.org> <261AD16B-C3FE-4671-996E-563053508CE8@mac.com> <20060623191131.C1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060623231121.GL83482@over-yonder.net> <20060623220204.L1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060624013305.GN83482@over-yonder.net> <20060623225437.C1114@ganymede.hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote: [ ... ] >>>>> 31750 vnode pager pageins >>>>> 15954 vnode pager pageouts >> >> It's the vnode pager, not the swap pager. AIUI, that's mostly paging >> in and out pages of running binaries (from the image on disk), not >> moving stuff in and out of swapspace. > > ah, okay ... Yeah-- it's more common for a system to need more RAM for dynamicly allocated content which would be placed into the swapfile then it uses binary executable pages, it's possible to go the other way, too. -- -Chuck
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