From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 19 20:16:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.optical-intelligence.org (CPE00010324a102.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [24.153.58.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 319D237B417 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:16:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from david@localhost) by kestrel.optical-intelligence.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1K4GaL28915 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 23:16:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 23:15:15 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: aristea@rogers.com Organization: Optical-Intelligence From: David Pfeffer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Memory and swap Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello All, I have recently started using FreeBsd and am very happy with it. However, I still have a lot to learn. That much is obvious. :) My question is this: Why would my swap not return to 0% if I have physical memory available? Below is a snippet from top. Mem: 155M Active, 22M Inact, 51M Wired, 5652K Cache, 35M Buf, 14M Free Swap: 1024M Total, 131M Used, 893M Free, 12% Inuse David -- E-Mail: David Pfeffer Date: 19-Feb-2002 Time: 23:14:32 Take it easy, we're in a hurry. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message