From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jun 12 6:48:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6E637B401 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 06:48:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA08680; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:48:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f5CDlno15452; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:47:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15142.7557.473834.213919@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:47:49 -0400 (EDT) To: Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it Cc: Subject: Re: memory management In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it writes: > > Hello I have 4.3 Release. > > I am heavily compiling now and this is the situation: > > Mem: 137M Active, 39M Inact, 50M Wired, 11M Cache, 45M Buf, 6952K Free > Swap: 1024M Total, 38M Used, 985M Free, 3% Inuse > > isn't it strange that 38MB of swap are in use while 39MB of ram is still > inactive ?? Not at all. Some large job, probably an "ld" forced other (more idle) processes out of memory, then exited freeing a large chunk of memory. Those (probably idle) processes have never paged in the memory that was swapped out, so it is still free. It looks like the pager made a good choice ;) This question would almost certainly be better asked in the freebsd-questions forum. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message