From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 3 19:34:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA26311 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 19:34:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pobox.com (ras160.microplus.ca [207.81.20.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA26290 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 19:34:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brianc@localhost) by pobox.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA00727; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 22:33:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970903223343.28431@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 22:33:43 -0400 From: Brian Campbell To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2-stable swap usage? References: <19970903202829.04429@pobox.com> <199709040219.VAA09663@dyson.iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76 In-Reply-To: <199709040219.VAA09663@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Wed, Sep 03, 1997 at 09:19:05PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ...