From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 13 21:41:06 2003 Return-Path: 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 60AF716A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:41:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-97.apple.com [17.250.248.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 764DF43D33 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:41:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id hBE5f5iQ006163 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:41:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.8] (12-228-114-247.client.attbi.com [12.228.114.247]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 3.0) with ESMTP id hBE5f5A6016997 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:41:05 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) In-Reply-To: <11D43A86-2DF5-11D8-AD0A-000393193538@snowmoon.com> References: <11D43A86-2DF5-11D8-AD0A-000393193538@snowmoon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <189DB020-2DF8-11D8-92B5-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: paul beard Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:40:59 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) Subject: Re: Page faults every few days X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 05:41:06 -0000 On Dec 13, 2003, at 9:19 PM, Jaime wrote: > (I don't see why a user-space process would interfere with kernel > resource management.) me, either, but it seemed worth looking into. since this seems to be related to swapping, how much real memory vs swap do you have? do you have any idea how much swapping is going on? I'm sure some more knowledgeable people than supply better diagnostic questions, but what do these values look like on the box you're concerned with? vm.stats.vm.v_swapin: 36869 vm.stats.vm.v_swapout: 63458 vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsin: 119489 vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsout: 283967 -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com