From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 15: 4:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.dial.pipex.net (monsoon.dial.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EE5F15093 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 15:04:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd@hunter13.com) Received: (qmail 16058 invoked from network); 4 Mar 1999 23:04:27 -0000 Received: from userb267.uk.uudial.com (HELO rich.hunter13.lan) (193.149.71.250) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 4 Mar 1999 23:04:27 -0000 From: bsd@hunter13.com (Richard Yeardley) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 3.1R Swap file usage - should it return to zero once in a while? Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 23:07:12 GMT Organization: None Message-ID: <36e21129.274298750@smtp.dial.pipex.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've a 32MB 3.1R box with 11MB swap space (I should have more but that's the way it goes). It's currently been up about ten days and in that time the swap space usage has grown to 55%. My question is should it fall back to zero by itself after a period of inactivity (ala Winblows) or is a reboot the only way to flush it? Below is a rather crude cut-and-paste of top -t. last pid: 27578; load averages: 0.13, 0.42, 0.53 up 10+00:53:24 23:06:20 39 processes: 39 sleeping CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 2.3% interrupt, 96.5% idle Mem: 11M Active, 7608K Inact, 7628K Wired, 3584K Cache, 3511K Buf, 488K Free Swap: 11M Total, 6252K Used, 5163K Free, 55% Inuse Cheers, Rich =46BSD3.1R : AMD PR75 : 32MB RAM : 335MD HD : V90 modem : NE2000 NIC apache 1.3.4+PHP3 : named : qpopper: socks5 : ipfw : mysql : samba To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message