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From: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org>
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
Cc: Stefan Blachmann <sblachmann@gmail.com>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: 13-CURRENT: several GB swap being used despite plenty of free RAM
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On Sunday, 18 November 2018 15:05:04 MST Cy Schubert wrote:

> Unfortunately like many operating systems these days, FreeBSD's tuning
> parameters are generally baked in. And, fencing (an IBM term to limit
> address space memory use or to establish a minimum) isn't available.
> So, tuning for a site specific workload is more difficult.

Talking of tuning, this seems like a good resource for tuning for desktop use: 
https://cooltrainer.org/a-freebsd-desktop-howto/ .

-- 
Rebecca