From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 11:33:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA19332 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 11:33:40 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA19321 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 11:33:38 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id LAA14274; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 11:36:36 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id LAA07346; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 11:33:48 -0700 Message-Id: <199506051833.LAA07346@corbin.Root.COM> To: Temptation cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Top In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 95 14:19:38 EDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1995 11:33:47 -0700 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >I seen some people talking (err typing) about Top here, and problems with >it not reporting correctly, are there commands to see memfree that work? >and also swapfile %. I have 256megs, and 25 meg swap, and I'm getting >/Kernel: swap_pager: out of space >( yes the Kernel is set up for the memory, and /var/log/messages picks up >the memory correctly with no errors) >Top says I'm using 100% swap, and only 24megs. 'pstat -s' will give you current swap usage information. I suspect that your swap partition isn't in /etc/fstab correctly and thus have no swap at all. With the merged VM/buffer cache, the system can periodically page out a page or two (but generally rare). If it tried to page just one page without swap, this would be obviously deadly. Free memory can be seen with 'vmstat -s'. The "free" plus "VM cache" pages are the total amount of 'free' memory. The system will try to use all of this otherwise unused memory for file caching. >If it is using the swap space, is there a way to force to use the ram >before the swap? It generally already does that. -DG