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Subject: Re: Simple swap question
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RW a écrit :
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:13:12 -0500
> FreeBSD <freebsd@optiksecurite.com> wrote:
>
>
>   
>> I can't see any process within parentheses in top... I also looked at 
>> the -f option of ps but the process that caused the swapping are not
>> listed.
>>
>>     
>
> FreeBSD only swaps in extreme cases - most of the time it's paging
> instead.
>
> If it really worries you:
>
> swapoff -a ; swapon -a
>
>   

Thanks a lot, it worked great!

Martin