From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 16: 6:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monk.via.net (monk.via.net [209.81.2.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37FF837BD1A for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:06:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@via.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by monk.via.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA90221 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:06:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe) From: Joe McGuckin Message-Id: <200003230006.QAA90221@monk.via.net> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:06:59 -0800 (PST) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is swap space ever reclaimed? X-Mailer: Ishmail 1.3.1-970608-bsdi MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wrote a quick program to allocate a bunch of memory (and write to every page) and then the process exits. pstat shows the swap space growing, but after the test program terminates, pstat still shows the swap space as allocated. Will freebsd ever reclaim unused, previously allocated swap space? Thanks, Joe -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-969-2203 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message