Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 10:53:47 -0700 From: LuKreme <kremels@kreme.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap on SSD Message-ID: <24BAEBB4-FAA7-47C8-A6FC-32839063666F@kreme.com> In-Reply-To: <bfd82845ece3604806329336c58610ed@roundcube.fjl.org.uk> References: <26877DEB-034F-422B-918F-2A0D1C381537@kreme.com> <bfd82845ece3604806329336c58610ed@roundcube.fjl.org.uk>
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On Feb 5, 2018, at 09:13, Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk> wrote: > FreeBSD doesn't actually swap these days; uses demand paging. This means t= hat blocks of RAM that are hardly ever used can get copied to disk. This may= include some stuff that's only accessed a few times a year, but would other= wise be occupying precious RAM that would be much more useful as a disk cach= e. That said, FreeBSD tends not to page out except as a last resort - probab= ly a mistake but I can't prove it. Thanks, this is what I didn't know because I know it use to swap a lot, even= if RAM was available (albeit, that may behave been v4...). I think I'll leave it for now, the machine has 8 times as much RAM as the on= e it replaced and is doing less, so I really shouldn't have any issues. The p= revious machine was setup to use a swap file instead of a partition. --=20 This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine.=
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