From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 02:43:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE8516A420 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:43:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from smtp106.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp106.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AD1443D46 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:43:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 66595 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2006 02:43:35 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-Squirrel-UserHash:X-Squirrel-FromHash:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Subject:From:To:Cc:User-Agent:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=qYE5CHeERz7mDEfyz9lkxFTqjlT95gXiu9yxQYqBDgyvKe4DQWmV+Z/sZzsm2eIIViLhwj67Q6QGHX8KPyx+ZWbvCSu1PeqBl8us3GkCE16mIA9QK1KdNGzaP1rcE4Mt0bI0X4fbYJC9x7J3L7m4hiGyMkynC6Cey7AQjldmsEU= ; Received: from unknown (HELO 172.16.0.1) (mikej@rogers.com@66.96.18.43 with login) by smtp106.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 2006 02:43:35 -0000 X-Squirrel-UserHash: GgEKEQ8= X-Squirrel-FromHash: FgtQRFVGBkU= Message-ID: <2154.FgtQRFVGBkU=.1140749016.squirrel@172.16.0.1> In-Reply-To: <43FE6DBD.5000006@paradise.net.nz> References: <43FE6DBD.5000006@paradise.net.nz> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:43:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike Jakubik" To: "Mark Kirkwood" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.2 [CVS] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Fraser Subject: Re: Virtual memory consumption (both user and kernel) in modern CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:43:36 -0000 On Thu, February 23, 2006 9:21 pm, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > The most likely culprit is the fact that redzones are enabled at the > moment in -CURRENT. > > On that note, Mike - did you try turning them off? Yes, it lowered my swap space usage from 40MB to 1MB. Which is certainly better, but even before, my system used no swap.