Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:40:35 -0500 From: Joseph Lephan <mystical@houston.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Swap file never get used. period Message-ID: <20020829194035.A33909@houston.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20020829223742.GT785@k7.mavetju>; from edwin@mavetju.org on Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 08:37:42AM %2B1000 References: <20020829171531.A1085@houston.rr.com> <20020829223742.GT785@k7.mavetju>
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* Edwin Groothuis (edwin@mavetju.org) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 05:15:31PM -0500, 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 > > The 100% you're talking about is the CPU utilisation, not the memory. Now that you mentioned it, i also seem to have a CPU utilisation graph problem. Ex: Gkrellm will not detect any CPU usage (despite my installing a port), nor will WMaker sensor utilities pick it up. I don't know if this is because my Kernel conf didn't specify it, or that i'm missing crucial files to make this happen > Swap space is for memory. So if you run a couple of big programs, > you will see that your free memory gets lower and lower and at a > certain time your swap space will be used. Yep. Another response that I got was that Swap files were never utilised, that is until the physical ram was all tied up. The most that my ram capacity reached was 70% (thats on 512mb), so i can't really test that hypothesis/fact. > > Edwin > -- > Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org > edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php > bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I really appreciate the input though. My question was quickly responded to, and i hope all of my future inquiries will receive the same treatment :) Sincerely Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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