Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:22:56 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More symptoms of VM (or related) oddities in 3.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <199812230322.TAA00736@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:22:32 PST." <199812230322.TAA72796@pinhead.parag.codegen.com>
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> > To follow up on my own note, I have since discovered that the swap > space usage on my disk reported by "top" is slowing increasing for no > apparent reason. > > When I posted the note, the usage was up to 608K. This morning it was > up to 8xxK, and right now it is 928K. I expect it to be over 1Mb in > the morning. > > This is on a machine with 256Mb RAM and 256Mb swap. It shouldn't ever > even need to touch swap, and with an Oct 23 kernel, never did. A Dec > 18 kernel (ELF or AOUT) seems to keep growing. The machine isn't doing > anything different nightly that it wasn't doing before, namely nightly > "make -j8 buildworld". This is probably just the proactive pushing out of idle stuff; unless the growth rate truly continues to rise, I wouldn't worry about it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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