From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 14:29:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB14B16A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:29:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from t-x.dignus.nl (t-x.dignus.nl [83.219.88.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B07343D1D for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:29:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost.dignus.nl [127.0.0.1]) by t-x.dignus.nl (Safehouse) with ESMTP id 090DD1A6E1; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:26:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (fia148-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.148]) by t-x.dignus.nl (Safehouse) with ESMTP id 9EAD21A6D5; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:26:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (localhost.kozy-kabin.nl [127.0.0.1]) by kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46AD561F3; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:29:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (colin@localhost)j2GETke6064498; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:29:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:29:42 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" To: Lowell Gilbert In-Reply-To: <44fyyvmzxt.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Message-ID: <20050316152736.G2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> References: <20050316123901.U2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> <444qfbpydd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org><44fyyvmzxt.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by RemSPAMd at ph230.plushosting.nl cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Illogical usage of swap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:29:56 -0000 On Mar 16 at 09:24, Lowell Gilbert then said: > "Colin J. Raven" writes: > >> On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: > >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM >> >> Hmm, yeah I should have included what I've actually read in the >> handbook and elsewhere. In fact I did read that exerpt you quoted the >> URL for above sometime previously, when it was quoted in another >> thread on the list. >> >> Free memory (or the lack thereof) isn't the issue though. >> >> The issue is this: >> Swap: 8192M Total, 116K Used, 8192M Free >> and that's the piece of the puzzle that has us all utterly baffled. > > The same logic applies to some extent, though. > >> No way in creation this box should be swapping. > > I have noticed that FreeBSD 5.x is swapping out small amounts of > memory in situations (as near I can tell; it is quite hard to be sure > that the situation is really identical) where 4.x was not. I haven't > really tried to track down exactly what's going on, but it's always > been less than the text segment of any task in the system, so I was > pretty sure I wasn't seeing a problem. Except (if I'm following you sequentially, and if I'm not, then apologies!) this is FreeBSD 4.11. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven Wed Mar 16 15:29:00 CET 2005