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Date:      Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:48:58 -0500
From:      Andrei Popov <ceesaxp@m-net.arbornet.org>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Swap not used *at**all*
Message-ID:  <20011226124857.A30355@m-net.arbornet.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011226151905.GA84869@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@allantgroup.com on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:19:05AM -0600
References:  <20011226091540.A70996@m-net.arbornet.org> <20011226151905.GA84869@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:19:05AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Dec 26), Andrei Popov said:
> >=20
> > Is this normal:
> >=20
> > andrei@vogon:~
> > 2:05:49pm% swapinfo
> > Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
> > /dev/ad4s1b        525344        0   525344     0%    Interleaved
> >=20
> > This machine is running with 256MB RAM and a 512MB swap device.  Swap u=
sage
> > is zero even when running X and postgress and aolserver with a running
> > instance of OpenACS-4.
>=20
> Try this:=20
>=20
> dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/null bs=3D192m count=3D1
>=20
> That should force some swapping :)

It sure does :)

But the question still remains -- is it not odd that there's no swapping
when running X, nor is there one when running fairly expenm=7Fsive Postgres
selects et al?

> =20
> --=20
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@allantgroup.com


-- Andrei

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