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Date:      Wed, 3 Sep 1997 22:33:43 -0400
From:      Brian Campbell <brianc@pobox.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 2.2-stable swap usage?
Message-ID:  <19970903223343.28431@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709040219.VAA09663@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Wed, Sep 03, 1997 at 09:19:05PM -0500
References:  <19970903202829.04429@pobox.com> <199709040219.VAA09663@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Wed, Sep 03, 1997 at 09:19:05PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote:
> Brian Campbell said:
> > Is it normal for 24M of swap to be marked in-use when nothing appears to be using it?
> > System has 64M RAM, and has been up and running AccelX for about a week.
> > Killing syslogd and cron didn't help.  There wasn't much left ...
>
> All of the address ranges marked by swap in the /proc/*/map can be in
> swap space.  Looks like there is enough of 'em.  Unmount the mfs, and
> I would suspect alot of your space will be freed up...

I suppose I should've included a 'df' of /tmp.  There was less than 50k in use at that point.
Next time it happens, I'll try to umount the mfs and see if it changes anything ...



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