From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 5 14: 4: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E39637B401 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:04:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 37987 invoked by uid 100); 5 Jul 2001 21:04:02 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15172.54850.915555.810142@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:04:02 -0500 To: Dan Larsson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question about FreeBSD swapping In-Reply-To: <120599299@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Dan Larsson types: > During some heavy compilations my 4.3-STABLE box used some of its > swapspace. However now long after the program is compiled the swapspace > is still used (according to pstat -T, swapinfo and top). > > Why doesn't the box release this swapspace? Because it hasn't needed it for anything else? One of the things I've noticed that FBSD does differently from other eunices is that it tends to not deallocate/free/delete things until it needs to. If it never needs to, or better yet can reuse the things in that state, it'll save time. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message