Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:07:54 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Illogical usage of swap Message-ID: <20050316130754.GC7986@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <20050316140047.S2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> References: <20050316123901.U2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> <444qfbpydd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050316133153.M2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> <20050316125446.GA7986@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050316140047.S2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl>
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On 2005-03-16 14:02, "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> wrote: >On Mar 16 at 14:54, Giorgos Keramidas asked: >>>Free memory (or the lack thereof) isn't the issue though. >>> >>>The issue is this: >>>Swap: 8192M Total, 116K Used, 8192M Free >>>and that's the piece of the puzzle that has us all utterly baffled. >>> >>>No way in creation this box should be swapping. >> >>Do you, by any chance, have vm.swap_idle_enabled set to 1? > > No, it isn't: > gonzo# sysctl -a |grep vm.swap_idle_enabled > vm.swap_idle_enabled: 0 Strange. AFAIK, processes are not swapped out to disk unless there is a severe memory shortage. The usual case is to have them "paged" out, which is a bit different.
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