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Date:      Tue, 7 Mar 2017 19:48:08 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
To:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Cc:        "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: slow machine, swap in use, but more than 5GB of RAM inactive
Message-ID:  <20170307194808.75b0064b@X220.alogt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170307070242.GO15630@zxy.spb.ru>
References:  <20170307101935.4c04ad5e@X220.alogt.com> <20170307070242.GO15630@zxy.spb.ru>

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Hi,

On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 10:02:42 +0300
Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 10:19:35AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
> > I wonder about the slow speed of my machine while top shows ample
> > inactive memory:
> > 
> > last pid: 85287;  load averages:  2.56,  2.44, 1.68 
> > up 6+10:24:45 10:13:36 191 processes: 5 running, 186 sleeping 
> > CPU 0: 47.1% user,  0.0% nice, 51.4% system, 0.0% interrupt,  1.6%
> > idle CPU 1: 38.4% user,  0.0% nice, 60.4% system,  0.0% interrupt,
> > 1.2% idle CPU 2: 38.8% user,  0.0% nice, 59.2% system,  0.0%
> > interrupt, 2.0% idle CPU 3: 45.5% user,  0.0% nice, 51.0% system,
> > 0.4% interrupt, 3.1% idle Mem: 677M Active, 5600M Inact, 1083M
> > Wired, 178M Cache, 816M Buf,301M Free 
> > Swap: 16G Total, 1352M Used, 15G Free, 8% Inuse
> > 
> > The swap space in use can be explained by large compilations done
> > recently. Why is the inactive memory not put to use.
> > 
> > I do not want to restart the machine. So, if I could help find the
> > source of the problem, I would do.  
> 
> inactive is not 'not used' memory.
> this is just pages don't touched in last 10(?) seconds, but all of
> this allocated (such as malloc, mmap, sendfile) to application
> (userland programs).

something changed then since my last update of FreeBSD. The machine is
currently on 10.3-STABLE FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE #2 r313849: Fri Feb 17. It
is on 10 since 2012. It was never this slow. Anyway, I will reboot it
soon into a new kernel and see what will happen then.

Thanks!

Erich



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