Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:50:02 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Joseph Lephan <mystical@houston.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap file never get used. period Message-ID: <20020830075002.GJ21595@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020830022915.A35824@houston.rr.com> References: <20020829171531.A1085@houston.rr.com> <20020830071538.GF21595@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20020830022915.A35824@houston.rr.com>
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> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 02:29:15 -0500
> From: Joseph Lephan <mystical@houston.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: Swap file never get used. period
>
> * Roman Neuhauser (neuhauser@bellavista.cz) wrote:
> > > From: Joseph Lephan <mystical@houston.rr.com>
> > > 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
ok. next question would be: how much physical memory do you have?
this system has 256mb, and i run all sorts of stuf on it
(apache+php, mysqld, tinydns+dnscache, ntpd, xfree86+blackbox
[mozilla, loads of rxvt terminals, several gvims, ...], and it uses
7% of swap. A few megs of ram more, it'd be all free.
but given you see 0% for everything in top, i'd say your kernel and
world are out of sync as suggested by Edwin Groothuis.
> > Mem: 156M Active, 21M Inact, 58M Wired, 11M Cache, 35M Buf, 2548K Free
> > Swap: 1024M Total, 80M Used, 944M Free, 7% Inuse
> I think that it's been clarified though. Swap is not used until Mem is
> completely tied up. Thanx for the input though
this is another possible cause
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