Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:03:45 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question Message-ID: <20081219190345.1fb2ceb9@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <494BE22A.3060301@optiksecurite.com> References: <C57144E5.6CE8%fsb@thefsb.org> <494BE22A.3060301@optiksecurite.com>
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:04:26 -0500 FreeBSD <freebsd@optiksecurite.com> wrote: > This server is very lightly used, so most of the time if the swap is > getting used it shows that something is going wrong. This warning > already proved usefull once, so I don't think I'm going to change it. > I don't want to mess with the kernel actions, but there was no reason > to keep this in swap. It's the other way around, if a page is written-out to swap and then read back into ram, there's no point in ditching the on-disk copy as long as it's still valid. If the kernel runs short of memory again, it can reuse such pages instantaneously.
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