From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 19 04:13:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C2401065675 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:13:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C13308FC20 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:13:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id mBJ47Kun083576; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:07:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id mBJ47KKo083575; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:07:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:07:19 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20081219040719.GA83557@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <494A693A.5050204@optiksecurite.com> <200812181028.18306.kirk@strauser.com> <20081218163632.GE5150@torus.slightlystrange.org> <494A820E.2030907@optiksecurite.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <494A820E.2030907@optiksecurite.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple swap question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:13:08 -0000 On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:02:06PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: > Daniel Bye a écrit : > >On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28:18AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > >>On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:16:10 FreeBSD wrote: > >>>Hi everyone, > >>> > >>>I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server that started to swap after an error > >>>in a shell script (process spawning competition ;-) ). I killed the > >>>shell and the RAM is now OK. The problem is that the swap is still used. > >>>How can I "reset" the swap? > >>You don't. The system will handle it for you, I promise. :-) > > > >And very well, too. > > > >You can prompt it to move pages back into RAM if you start using a swapped- > >out process again - say, for example, a quiescent word processor had been > >swapped out, you could get it back by raising it and starting to type. > > > >But as Kirk said, there really is no need. It's one of the kernel's many > >jobs, and I'm inclined to leave it get on with it! > > > >Dan > > > > Thanks for your answer. I'm asking here because it's been several days > and there is still used swap for data that should never be used anymore. > If the kernel wants to keep it, why not move it to RAM now that there is > some free? Why bother if it isn't being currently used? ////jerry > > Martin > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >