Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:46:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worst case swapping. Message-ID: <200006112246.PAA29392@apollo.backplane.com> References: <14660.3153.658226.142964@trooper.velocet.net> <200006112220.PAA29235@apollo.backplane.com> <14660.4950.94654.399889@trooper.velocet.net>
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:Believe me, I look at these things. Yes there is a lot going on and a
:lot using memory. I normally have about 20% to 25% of my Gig of swap
:used... meaning that I have allocated roughly double my RAM in
:applications.
:
:And when this worst-case happens, memory is full... but the only
:active application is Netscape.
:
:On my home machine, the same thing tends to happen. It only has 128M
:and vastly fewer things going on. I see cases were I'm surfing for
:20-30 minutes and I will hit this 10 to 30 second (longer, becase the
:swap at home is slower) gap in netscape response.
:
:The only other applications running would be something like a small
:UUCP transfer or a small amount of NFS traffic when the wife's
:(diskless) machine changes screensavers.
:
:Dave.
Hmm. How large a memory-cache do you have configured for netscape?
Disk cache? What is the RSS and VSZ of the netscape binary while
the paging is going on? Please post a ps axl of the state of the system
while the paging is going on.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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