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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si>
Subject: Re: CURRENT: why is CURRENT swapping so fast?
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On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 01:12:08AM +0200 I heard the voice of
Mark Martinec, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> The situation does not improve by itself, ARC has it all, less
> active jobs scramble and fight for whatever free memory is left for
> them and most of them remain swapped out. The best curse of action
> to recover is to reboot. Quite a pain.

You may want to check out
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187594> which I
believe is related.  Make sure you get the latest patch rather than
the older one, ref's in comment 10 at
<http://www.denninger.net/FreeBSD-Patches/arc-patch>.


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