From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 15:23:24 2002 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 32B8737B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.southeast.rr.com (smtp2.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B875C43E91 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:23:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6 [24.93.67.53]) by smtp2.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g7TMNwts022748; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:23:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([24.162.238.30]) by mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:23:17 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id CEDAFBA12; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:23:15 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Joseph Lephan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap file never get used. period Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:23:15 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <20020829171531.A1085@houston.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20020829171531.A1085@houston.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208291823.15645.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Unless processes are failing with out of memory, just be happy. Not swapping is good; swapping slows down your machine by orders of magnitude compared to doing operations in memory. Any well-designed operating system will avoid swapping whenever possible. On Thursday 29 August 2002 06:15 pm, Joseph Lephan wrote: | Upon recently installing FreeBSD, I was aware that i allocated 1 GB | to a swap partition. Now this is fine because that was what i wanted, | but it seems that when I type in 'top' at console, my swap file was | reported to at 100%, ie, none of was being used, ever. I'm just | wondering if this is due to a miscompiling of the kernel, or if there | should be some modules compiled for virtual memory, or if this is | just a plain fact of Freebsd. Greatly appreciated. :-P | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message