Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 21:05:02 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Stari Karp <starikarp@yandex.com> Cc: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap partition Message-ID: <20161229210502.c5c2704f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1483032642.96075.3.camel@yandex.com> References: <20161229162919.34694.qmail@ary.lan> <1483032642.96075.3.camel@yandex.com>
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 12:30:42 -0500, Stari Karp wrote: > On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 16:29 +0000, John Levine wrote: > > In article <1483012420.95172.9.camel@yandex.com> you write: > > >=20 > > > I like to increase swap partition ... > > Why?=A0=A0Most BSD systems hardly use swap space at all.=A0=A0There's p= lenty > > of paging but that's mostly from the files that back the memory. > >=20 > > R's, > > John >=20 > I am using Synth and I have 8 GB memory and swap partition was made > defaut 3.6 GB and when I built LibreOFFice and Firefox for example > together than going swap to 100%=A0 > (swap_pager: out of swap space > kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(5): failed) > and because that I think to increase swap partition. That's really "impressive"... I had to open 70+ tabs with "Flash" content running in order to get Opera start using swap - on a PC with 2 GB RAM, plus 2 GB swap partition. I made a terminal capture for this spectacular event: 1 [|||| 7.9%] Tasks: 73, 0 thr; 1 running 2 [| 2.6%] Load average: 0.38 0.70 0.42=20 Mem[|||||||||||||||||||1601/1990MB] Uptime: 00:52:33 Swp[||||| 275/2047MB] Over time, swap did increase a little bit, but hardly any CPU load - mostly I/O load. Mem[|||||||||||||||||||1597/1990MB] Swp[|||||| 404/2047MB] The system kept being basically responsive, but the browser was no fun to interact with until the "Flash" processes were forcedly killed. :-) --=20 Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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