From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 28 05:26:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391B737B401 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 05:26:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0902343F3F for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 05:26:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h6SCPpj01109; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:25:55 -0300 Message-ID: <3F25164D.6030209@tcoip.com.br> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:25:49 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030702 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ahmed Al-Hindawi References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: mezz7@cox.net cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: wmoran@potentialtech.com cc: kientzle@acm.org Subject: Re: Memory Mangement Problem in 5.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:26:11 -0000 Ahmed Al-Hindawi wrote: >> If your system is spending a lot of time moving data to and from swap >> when it is not memory-starved, or if it is stalling memory allocations >> that it should be able to fulfill from free RAM, that's a concern. > > > That is exactly it. I emphaises th words " when it is not memory-starved > ". It isn't memory starved. > > Also I get 150Mb frequently of swap disk space, whilst still having a > complete third of my memory free!! > > I can understand everyones view on this, that the swap algorithim is > swaping pre-emtively. But 150MB?? Is that what is called a low level of > swaping?? From the set of applications you listed, 150 MB doesn't even sound all that much. 300MB-400MB is the footprint I'd expect for that. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Weiner's Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross references.