From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 20 23:51:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BEF616A402 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:51:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF98113C45B for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:51:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H8Pzt-00078E-Ns for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:51:46 +0100 Received: from 83-131-105-165.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([83.131.105.165]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:51:45 +0100 Received: from ivoras by 83-131-105-165.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:51:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:51:36 +0100 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <60131.192.168.11.7.1169279847.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> <20070120221021.GA63135@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <45B297D0.4060109@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig368F538A90F21F917C665A5C" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83-131-105-165.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: <45B297D0.4060109@gmx.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.2 Sender: news Subject: Re: virtual memory management X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:51:54 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig368F538A90F21F917C665A5C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: >> Don't forget that the system also pages to swap space and it takes the= >> attitude of parking as much as possible out there in case it comes in >> to demand again. Ten if it really needs the space for something, it=20 >> invalidates the oldest stuff and uses that space. >> >> So, you should really expect that your swap space should be=20 >> nearly maxed all the time if things are working well. >=20 > If this is the case something is really wrong on my system: >=20 > Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free >=20 > either top doesn't show the precautionary swapping or this is not happe= ning. "Precautionary" swapping does exist, but it's not that often :) What the poster probably meant is that it's possible to have a perfectly working system which looks like it's using a lot of swap if the swapin/swapout rate is low enough. --------------enig368F538A90F21F917C665A5C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFsqsIldnAQVacBcgRAt8KAJ4ssu8Dq1wjOea1BKblJbKjLeM/dwCg3ZeZ oIJ8wp7Kli2Jy7nK6yIPMm0= =+PRs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig368F538A90F21F917C665A5C--