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From: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org>
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
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Subject: Re: 13-CURRENT: several GB swap being used despite plenty of free RAM
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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