From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 22 19:25:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA15903 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:25:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA15895 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:25:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA00736; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:22:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812230322.TAA00736@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Parag Patel cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More symptoms of VM (or related) oddities in 3.0-CURRENT In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:22:32 PST." <199812230322.TAA72796@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:22:56 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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