From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 14 11:25:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from realtime.net (dragon.realtime.net [205.238.128.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A722537B401 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:24:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from tigerfish2.my.domain ([205.238.153.161]) by realtime.net ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:24:45 -0600 Received: (from brucegb@localhost) by tigerfish2.my.domain (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0EJPKZ20987 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:25:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brucegb) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:25:20 -0600 From: Bruce Burden To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /swap too large? What?? Message-ID: <20010114132520.A79824@tigerfish2.my.domain> References: <20010113002643.A33278@tigerfish2.my.domain> <200101131927.f0DJRSS34276@earth.backplane.com> <20010113150956.B37497@tigerfish2.my.domain> <200101132205.f0DM5pJ35749@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101132205.f0DM5pJ35749@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 02:05:51PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you for the replies, folks. > > : I have dropped things back to NSWAPDEV=3, and see if that > : does anything. > > That will fix it. > Indeed it did. While have rarely seen swapping take place under normal situations (GIMP, as I mentioned, will swap), it was a bit nerve-wracking to see free memory dropping somewhat low w/out any swap space. On the other hand, I did note that garbage collection is much more aggressive when you don't have any swap space! Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message