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Date:      Sat, 17 Nov 2018 15:22:51 -0700
From:      Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 13-CURRENT: several GB swap being used despite plenty of free RAM
Message-ID:  <3445599.DPmmpGpFb9@photon.int.bluestop.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1811172251090.60846@puchar.net>
References:  <1748688.u6MfGjpqfb@photon.int.bluestop.org> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1811172251090.60846@puchar.net>

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On Saturday, 17 November 2018 14:52:22 MST Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> freebsd will not swap with that lots of free ram.
> but it's 90GB free NOW, how about before?
> 
> If something got swapped it isn't read back just because there is free
> memory but when it will be needed.

That was it: just before, I'd run grep and canceled it after it reached about 
120GB memory usage!

-- 
Rebecca





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