From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 5 23:09:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02719 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 23:09:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA02616; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 23:09:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA09011; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 01:09:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199804060609.BAA09011@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: swap-leak in 2.2.5 ? In-Reply-To: <199804060556.AAA02073@detlev.UUCP> from Joel Ray Holveck at "Apr 6, 98 00:56:49 am" To: joelh@gnu.org Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 01:09:32 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, dswartz@druber.com, dg@root.com, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > The needed amount of physical memory is best judged by paging activity, > > but again, the system doesn't tell you directly. > > Perhaps I'm confused, then... Doesn't vmstat tell you paging activity? > Granted, it doesn't tell you whether it's paging to get rid of unused > pages, or whether it's paging to free up needed memory, but at least > it's a start. > It doesn't quantify the amount of paging that is excessive. How does one judge that a certain amount of paging is too much? The work would be to quantify and interpret the raw status that the system provides. It is similar to the difference between "understanding" and "being able to design." I suggest that this would be a good project, but creating a reliable measure of system paging load where a measurement of excessive paging is translated into an understandable and accurage judgement is interesting, and the information is not provided directly by the system. It would have to be calculated somehow. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message