From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 11 15:46:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D89137BBB7; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:46:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA29392; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:46:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:46:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200006112246.PAA29392@apollo.backplane.com> To: David Gilbert Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worst case swapping. References: <14660.3153.658226.142964@trooper.velocet.net> <200006112220.PAA29235@apollo.backplane.com> <14660.4950.94654.399889@trooper.velocet.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :Believe me, I look at these things. Yes there is a lot going on and a :lot using memory. I normally have about 20% to 25% of my Gig of swap :used... meaning that I have allocated roughly double my RAM in :applications. : :And when this worst-case happens, memory is full... but the only :active application is Netscape. : :On my home machine, the same thing tends to happen. It only has 128M :and vastly fewer things going on. I see cases were I'm surfing for :20-30 minutes and I will hit this 10 to 30 second (longer, becase the :swap at home is slower) gap in netscape response. : :The only other applications running would be something like a small :UUCP transfer or a small amount of NFS traffic when the wife's :(diskless) machine changes screensavers. : :Dave. Hmm. How large a memory-cache do you have configured for netscape? Disk cache? What is the RSS and VSZ of the netscape binary while the paging is going on? Please post a ps axl of the state of the system while the paging is going on. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message