From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 12:29:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3547B16A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:29:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB1643D39 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:29:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 17187 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2005 12:29:52 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Mar 2005 12:29:52 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 5099651; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:29:51 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: "Colin J. Raven" References: <20050316123901.U2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 16 Mar 2005 07:29:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20050316123901.U2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> Message-ID: <444qfbpydd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Illogical usage of swap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:29:53 -0000 "Colin J. Raven" writes: > Hard to believe, but this beast is swapping. Here's a typical top > snapshot: > > load averages: 0.75, 0.36, 0.23 up 14+12:39:04 12:40:02 > 128 processes: 1 running, 125 sleeping, 2 zombie > CPU states: > 7.5% user, 0.0% nice, 1.3% system, 0.0% interrupt, 91.2% idle > Mem: > 479M Active, 2470M Inact, 337M Wired, 101M Cache, 199M Buf, 5468K Free > Swap: 8192M Total, 116K Used, 8192M Free Not a problem. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM