From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 6 15:37:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25582 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 15:37:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25576; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 15:37:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA00765; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 15:34:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804062234.PAA00765@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Dan Swartzendruber cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, dg@root.com, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap-leak in 2.2.5 ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 05 Apr 1998 18:20:46 EDT." <3.0.5.32.19980405182046.009137d0@mail.kersur.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 15:34:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It was actually kind of embarrassing. I convinced a local ISP to start > converting their servers from Linux (what I recommended a few years ago > when I didn't know different :)) One of the admins (who has some Linux > experience) asked me why it was using swap. I gave the canonical reply. > He asked the question I just posed. I had no good reply :( The simplest answer to this is "because the system has found a better use for memory than holding the data". It can't throw it away (it's data, after all), so it parks it in the swap partition. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message