Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 00:31:42 -0600 From: "Franklin Pierce" <franklin_pierce@operamail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ram & swap & whiskers on kittens Message-ID: <20021226063142.28269.qmail@operamail.com>
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----- Original Message -----
From: David Nicholas Kayal <davek@saturn5.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 12:19:17 -0800 (PST)
To: Charlie Root <root@mntkz.net>
Subject: Re: ram & swap
> First . . .
[most of the top post snipped]
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Charlie Root wrote:
>
> > Hey why everything on my machine goes into RAM? i have always 87% ram
> > taken by every proccess running... i have 91 megs of ram.... what should
> > i do? my swap is always empty...
[snip]
Swap: that's good.
RAM: Excellent! When your machine isn't using all of
its delicious and spicy RAM it steals some for buffering
(to gerundise agressively) disk writes. Once she gets
a tad more loaded, she'll just stop buffering so aggres-
sively. It really isn't good, per se, to be using swap,
it's just a cheaper fallback than getting more RAM/a
motherboard that can take more RAM/hosed by $RETAILER.
Since I have no idea how it works I won't go into any
particulars, but if you ever want to hear about why we
let Kansas vote on becoming a free or slave state, and
why the compromise was made to appease the southern
Democrats, drop me a line.
Love,
Franklin Pierce
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