From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 19 20:47:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B66C37B419 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:47:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1K4ljo34215; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:47:45 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:47:45 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: David Pfeffer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory and swap Message-ID: <20020220174745.A34032@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from aristea@rogers.com on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:15:15PM -0500 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 On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:15:15PM -0500, David Pfeffer wrote: > 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? Why should it? Taking stuff out from swap takes time, and if the swapped out stuff isn't being used, why bother? -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "You can get farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone" - Al Capone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message