From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 2 02:52:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA21510 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 02:52:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA21486 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 02:51:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA05426; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 05:51:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199803021051.FAA05426@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: TOP Display and INND In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19980302002422.02f270e4@syix.com> from Dave Overton at "Mar 2, 98 00:24:22 am" To: dave@syix.com (Dave Overton) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 05:51:53 -0500 (EST) Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message