From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Feb 14 07:45:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA11926 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 07:45:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA11908 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 07:45:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA08201 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:44:55 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id QAA16950 for bugs@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:44:38 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.5/keltia-uucp-2.9) id PAA19721; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 15:28:43 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19970214152842.WO21409@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 15:28:42 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap problems References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60,1-3,9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2999 In-Reply-To: ; from Thomas Evans on Feb 12, 1997 07:53:06 -0500 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Thomas Evans: > Where is my memory going? My swap file keeps getting full. > Run 2/5 Gamma on a machine with 20Meg swap and 32 Meg real memory. > By my math, the total mem usage shown by ps-aux commadn is 25M. Yet > I'm using 17M of the swap (thats 50 Meg total?). Never use for swap less than at least the physical memory. Remember also that swap is a backup of the physical memory, not an extension (like in Linux) of it. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #39: Sun Feb 2 22:12:44 CET 1997