Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 07:33:07 -0400 From: Tim Middleton <x@vex.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: why the swapping Message-ID: <200605180733.07375.x@vex.net>
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Running 6.0-release, with 2 gig ram. Typical memory stats like this (from top): 626M Active, 1045M Inact, 204M Wired, 75M Cache, 112M Buf, 22M Free Under moderately high load i'm seeing a lot of swapping periodically through the day (and then load avg going way, way up, of course). I'm wondering why is there, with so much inactive memory, so much disk swapping? The machine runs some fairly intense stuff, such as squid, postgresql, and zope; but it seems to me there should be enough RAM to cover all of this without swapping. What am I missing? Am i misinterpretting the stats, and just not understanding how the vm works? -- Tim Middleton | Vex.Net | There is a wisdom that is woe; but there x@veX.net | VexTech.ca | is a woe that is madness. --Melville (MD)
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