From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 0:29:31 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 99BB237B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 00:29:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from houston.rr.com (cs2417481-85.houston.rr.com [24.174.81.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 345CA43E75 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 00:29:27 -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 g7U7TFk4035852 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 02:29:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mystical@houston.rr.com) Received: (from mystical@localhost) by houston.rr.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g7U7TF9c035851 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 02:29:15 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 02:29:15 -0500 From: Joseph Lephan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap file never get used. period Message-ID: <20020830022915.A35824@houston.rr.com> References: <20020829171531.A1085@houston.rr.com> <20020830071538.GF21595@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020830071538.GF21595@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>; from neuhauser@bellavista.cz on Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:15:38AM +0200 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 * Roman Neuhauser (neuhauser@bellavista.cz) wrote: > > Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 17:15:31 -0500 > > From: Joseph Lephan > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Swap file never get used. period > > please break your lines > > > 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. > > interesting. if you see 100%, your swap is 100% *used* > actual top output: You Know what i meant. Put simply, 100% of my swap is Available, 0% used > > Mem: 156M Active, 21M Inact, 58M Wired, 11M Cache, 35M Buf, 2548K Free > Swap: 1024M Total, 80M Used, 944M Free, 7% Inuse > > -- > FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE > 9:11AM up 9 days, 15:03, 12 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00 I think that it's been clarified though. Swap is not used until Mem is completely tied up. Thanx for the input though To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message