From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 10:29:11 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA17984 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 10:29:11 -0700 Received: from io.org (io.org [142.77.70.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA17978 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 10:29:09 -0700 Received: from trepan.io.org (apollo@trepan.io.org [198.133.36.8]) by io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA05243 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:29:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:29:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Herdman To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: 2.0.5 Eager to go into swap Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a 486dx2/66 with 32 Megs of ram, and a 32 meg swap partition. When I was using 2.0 (CD) i rarely ever went into swap. I could make a port, and run netscape under X and still not hit swap. Now with 2.0.5, it seems very eager to start swaping. In fact, with the above, it goes into 45% or more swap. This sucks to say the least. My machine is trashing big time when this happens. Is anyone familiar with this? Is there a fix? I know swaping was changed in 2.0.5, but I heard it was for the better, not the worse..... Any suggestions, comments, are most welcome. Andrew P.s. If anyone could actually tell me how to figure out how much memory a process is really using i'd like to know that too.