Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 20:10:53 +0400 From: Alexander Polakov <polachok@narod.ru> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why the swapping Message-ID: <20060518201053.83e5e74d.polachok@narod.ru> In-Reply-To: <200605180733.07375.x@vex.net> References: <200605180733.07375.x@vex.net>
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On Thu, 18 May 2006 07:33:07 -0400 Tim Middleton <x@vex.net> wrote: > > Running 6.0-release, with 2 gig ram. Typical memory stats like this (from > top): > > 626M Active, > 1045M Inact, > 204M Wired, > 75M Cache, > 112M Buf, > 22M Free > > Under moderately high load i'm seeing a lot of swapping periodically through > the day (and then load avg going way, way up, of course). I'm wondering why > is there, with so much inactive memory, so much disk swapping? > > The machine runs some fairly intense stuff, such as squid, postgresql, and > zope; but it seems to me there should be enough RAM to cover all of this > without swapping. What am I missing? Am i misinterpretting the stats, and > just not understanding how the vm works? > > -- > Tim Middleton | Vex.Net | There is a wisdom that is woe; but there > x@veX.net | VexTech.ca | is a woe that is madness. --Melville (MD) > maybe you have to set vm.swap_idle_enabled=0 or vm.swap_enabled=0 ? -- Best regards. Alexander "polachok" Polakov
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