From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 17:41: 9 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 4208837B48D for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 17:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from houston.rr.com (cs2417481-85.houston.rr.com [24.174.81.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA5443E42 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 17:40:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mystical@houston.rr.com) Received: from houston.rr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by houston.rr.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7U0ehk4033948 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:40:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mystical@houston.rr.com) Received: (from mystical@localhost) by houston.rr.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g7U0eeEL033947 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:40:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:40:35 -0500 From: Joseph Lephan To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Swap file never get used. period Message-ID: <20020829194035.A33909@houston.rr.com> References: <20020829171531.A1085@houston.rr.com> <20020829223742.GT785@k7.mavetju> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020829223742.GT785@k7.mavetju>; from edwin@mavetju.org on Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 08:37:42AM +1000 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 * 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