From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Tue Mar 7 02:38:39 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5805D00923 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2017 02:38:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9EA917E0 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2017 02:38:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id B9432D00922; Tue, 7 Mar 2017 02:38:39 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8E77D00921 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2017 02:38:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com) Received: from alogt.com (alogt.com [69.36.191.58]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9A91917DE for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2017 02:38:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alogt.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: Subject:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To:References:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=71dMgOSuokIhEGjpiXHIdYmt01wX8+oCcfPgcqAwMAY=; b=BYEzFM1a9HCkI3KKen9naNXbRh 7IMBDSNM9YzUL0GpnekpCPds/zFG/R7ftwHSEQlSjDvMcLVuTD4WoHuNnUhWmOdk+PWSnA6BJ1xnj W4gBolMsj5TEkHTE02QzGLiuahBzTNmoEbEX5In60aSZFfsK0XBylsRul54OlTH1c2Tk=; Received: from [114.125.118.214] (port=60595 helo=X220.alogt.com) by sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.88) (envelope-from ) id 1cl4iz-001llF-Ds for stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 19:19:41 -0700 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 10:19:35 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky To: "stable@freebsd.org" Subject: slow machine, swap in use, but more than 5GB of RAM inactive Message-ID: <20170307101935.4c04ad5e@X220.alogt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - alogt.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net: authenticated_id: erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com X-Authenticated-Sender: sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net: erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 02:38:39 -0000 Hi, I wonder about the slow speed of my machine while top shows ample inactive memory: last pid: 85287; load averages: 2.56, 2.44, 1.68 up 6+10:24:45 10:13:36 191 processes: 5 running, 186 sleeping CPU 0: 47.1% user, 0.0% nice, 51.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 1.6% idle CPU 1: 38.4% user, 0.0% nice, 60.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 1.2% idle CPU 2: 38.8% user, 0.0% nice, 59.2% system, 0.0% interrupt, 2.0% idle CPU 3: 45.5% user, 0.0% nice, 51.0% system, 0.4% interrupt, 3.1% idle Mem: 677M Active, 5600M Inact, 1083M Wired, 178M Cache, 816M Buf,301M Free Swap: 16G Total, 1352M Used, 15G Free, 8% Inuse The swap space in use can be explained by large compilations done recently. Why is the inactive memory not put to use. I do not want to restart the machine. So, if I could help find the source of the problem, I would do. Erich