From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 00:01:10 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA25579 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 00:01:10 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA25573 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 00:01:07 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id AAA08130; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 00:00:58 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id AAA00645; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 00:01:32 -0700 Message-Id: <199506280701.AAA00645@corbin.Root.COM> To: Rob Snow cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swapinfo again (never decreases) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jun 95 01:50:37 CDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 00:01:31 -0700 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >Device 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type >/dev/wd0s3b 48384 10400 37856 22% Interleaved > > >******** >******** >Back to my login shell and LOOK 19% of swapspace is used... > > PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND > 149 v0 Ss 0:00.60 -tcsh (tcsh) > 248 v0 R+ 0:00.04 ps > >Device 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type >/dev/wd0s3b 48384 9016 39240 19% Interleaved > > > >Why is 19% still used? 4.5MB of swap space in-use is not a significant amount. The system daemons as well as a few user processes have been paged out. That's all; it's quite normal and expected. -DG