Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:47:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it Cc: <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: memory management Message-ID: <15142.7557.473834.213919@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0106121116060.24366-100000@nikita.fi.infn.it> References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0106121116060.24366-100000@nikita.fi.infn.it>
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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
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