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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.

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