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Date:      Mon, 2 Mar 1998 05:51:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        dave@syix.com (Dave Overton)
Cc:        isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TOP Display and INND
Message-ID:  <199803021051.FAA05426@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19980302002422.02f270e4@syix.com> from Dave Overton at "Mar 2, 98 00:24:22 am"

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Dave Overton said:
> 
> ANY ideas why it would show 47M Inact, and a dumb 10M Swap???  What have I
> got set wrong?  How do I get it to NOT swap?  Gad, its not using the RAM,
> why is it swapping???
> 
The swap space is used in your case when there are old, stale, private
modified pages taking up memory.  No sense in keeping them in memory, so
they are pushed out.  Now you have 10MB more real memory to work with.

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.

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