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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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