Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:41:26 -0400 From: Robert Fitzpatrick <robert@webtent.org> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Swap usage Message-ID: <58DBB986.1060609@webtent.org> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BtpaK1=6Bn5mKfyX07gVZu%2Bg7fG3A4Xrj51G8WwFgdibic%2BkQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <58DBAB34.1000200@webtent.org> <CA%2BtpaK1=6Bn5mKfyX07gVZu%2Bg7fG3A4Xrj51G8WwFgdibic%2BkQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick via freebsd-questions< > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> I've read a lot of posts on this subject and realize swap usage will >> happen even if you have plenty of physical memory. > > > This is not a true statement. Thanks for the clarification. > >> But are my usage results normal? .... >> >> last pid: 56095; load averages: 0.41, 0.35, 0.23 up 9+18:56:41 >>> 08:34:39 >>> 102 processes: 1 running, 101 sleeping >>> CPU: 1.6% user, 0.0% nice, 1.0% system, 0.2% interrupt, 97.2% idle >>> Mem: 692M Active, 29G Inact, 3033M Wired, 644M Cache, 1655M Buf, 149M Free >>> Swap: 4096M Total, 2890M Used, 1205M Free, 70% Inuse >>> >> There is 34G physical memory in the server but swap usage keeps creeping >> up, could this possibly be a leak? After startup, it kept putting memory in >> Inactive until it plateaued at 29G as swap usage then started rising. >> > > Possibly. More probable than a legit bigfoot sighting, less probable than > your system is preforming how it's configured. > > What is using the RAM? > Yep, I was just reading about and making changes to the PostgreSQL database config and able to get more Inactive in use. So, nevermind unless you see something else. -- Robert
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