Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:03:53 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Joseph Lephan <mystical@houston.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap file never get used. period Message-ID: <20020830160352.GK6092@hades.hell.gr> 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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On 2002-08-30 02:29 +0000, Joseph Lephan wrote: > > 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 > > > 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 Well, that's not entirely true. The article at http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/ explains a little more the details of ``swap is used whenever you need more RAM'': -- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve -- http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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