From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 10:10:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD9537B404 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3995D43F75 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:10:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h6PHASj32158; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 14:10:28 -0300 Message-ID: <3F216483.1000704@tcoip.com.br> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 14:10:27 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030702 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ahmed Al-Hindawi References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: mezz7@cox.net cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: wmoran@potentialtech.com Subject: Re: Memory Mangement Problem in 5.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:10:48 -0000 Ahmed Al-Hindawi wrote: > This is not the problem. We know what is the purpose of swap data. It is > swaping when there is more than suffiecient memory to do so. There is > disk activity on the swap disk (I have a seperate disk for faster > access) even when there is enough memory to suit my request and more. > > It is simply swapping when it shouldn't. > > Opening Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, DrJava, jEdit, Emacs, PrBoom, > XBubbles, and Nautilus at the same time on a 233Mhz machine should fill > up the memory (160Mb) but instead it has decided to use the swap disk > for a measly 50Mb which I do have in RAM!! You *ARE* measuring this with FreeBSD's top(1), right? Linux has different semantics for memory, so things it thinks are "free" are actually in use on FreeBSD, and most monitor programs are written with Linux semantics in mind. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Just when you get really good at something, you don't need to do it anymore.