From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 24 03:38:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F9A16A49E for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:38:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF05E43D58 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:38:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2206106; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:38:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6rJ6ONuFLx+X; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:38:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.251] (pool-68-160-201-170.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.201.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4469F60EB; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:38:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <449CB3C4.2060509@mac.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:38:44 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" References: <20060623172557.H1114@ganymede.hub.org> <261AD16B-C3FE-4671-996E-563053508CE8@mac.com> <20060623191131.C1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060623231121.GL83482@over-yonder.net> <20060623220204.L1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060624013305.GN83482@over-yonder.net> <20060623225437.C1114@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20060623225437.C1114@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Matthew D. Fuller" Subject: Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:38:49 -0000 Marc G. Fournier wrote: [ ... ] >>>>> 31750 vnode pager pageins >>>>> 15954 vnode pager pageouts >> >> It's the vnode pager, not the swap pager. AIUI, that's mostly paging >> in and out pages of running binaries (from the image on disk), not >> moving stuff in and out of swapspace. > > ah, okay ... Yeah-- it's more common for a system to need more RAM for dynamicly allocated content which would be placed into the swapfile then it uses binary executable pages, it's possible to go the other way, too. -- -Chuck