From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 17 07:03:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA19269 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 07:03:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain.iafrica.com (root@chain.iafrica.com [196.7.74.174]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA19260 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 07:03:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain.iafrica.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA01955; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 16:01:47 +0200 (SAT) X-Authentication-Warning: chain.iafrica.com: khetan owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 16:01:47 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Way to flush swap In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: >Is it actually a problem? I thought that some things were left in swap >in case they were needed later, e.g. shared library sort of stuff. >They get flushed when swap is needed for other things. Not in my case. Swap utilisation stays high, and when I do a make world, more often than not the swap utilisation increases (as you would expect) and then stops due to lack of swap. i.e. to do a make world after using my machine for a reasonable amount of time, I have to reboot/restart. Regards, Khetan Gajjar. --- Visit me at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ UUNet-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002