From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 17:15:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8969A106564A for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:15:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [IPv6:2001:470:a80a:1:21f:d0ff:fe22:b8a8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5038A8FC17 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:15:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F0453EA12F for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:15:05 -0600 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at honeypot.net Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6-fcRzleEmoq for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:15:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from athena.localnet (athena.daycos.com [IPv6:2001:470:c054:1:221:9bff:fe00:de3f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6910E53EA12E for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:15:03 -0600 (CST) From: Kirk Strauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:14:58 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.27-9-generic; KDE/4.1.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <494A693A.5050204@optiksecurite.com> <20081218163632.GE5150@torus.slightlystrange.org> <494A820E.2030907@optiksecurite.com> In-Reply-To: <494A820E.2030907@optiksecurite.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812181114.58652.kirk@strauser.com> Subject: Re: Simple swap question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:15:06 -0000 On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:02:06 FreeBSD wrote: > Thanks for your answer. I'm asking here because it's been several days > and there is still used swap for data that should never be used anymore. > If the kernel wants to keep it, why not move it to RAM now that there is > some free? Do you *know* that it hadn't copied it back to RAM, leaving a copy in swap in case it needs that RAM suddenly? Really, the OS is better at this than we are. -- Kirk Strauser