Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 01:41:39 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usage of swap file Message-ID: <20090206014139.4351447e@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <EFC046D7613C41D0B61835F1D9C78F35@desktop2002> References: <EFC046D7613C41D0B61835F1D9C78F35@desktop2002>
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On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:33:40 +0200 "Yavuz" <maslak@ihlas.net.tr> wrote: > I use freebsd7.0 > I have 2 Gbyte RAM and 4 Gbyte Swap. > my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90 > Gbyte swap, I saw that run out of memory when I see with top command. > Why doesn't the machine use swap properly ? I'm not sure what you are saying here, but if you mean that it appears to have very little free memory, but isn't swapping, then that's normal, see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#TOP-FREEMEM
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