Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:49:32 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> To: Andrei Popov <ceesaxp@m-net.arbornet.org> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap not used *at**all* Message-ID: <45140.1009396172@winston.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Andrei Popov <ceesaxp@m-net.arbornet.org> of "Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:48:58 EST." <20011226124857.A30355@m-net.arbornet.org>
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[ This is not a discussion relevant to -current and should have started and stayed in -questions; editing cc line ] > But the question still remains -- is it not odd that there's no swapping > when running X, nor is there one when running fairly expenmsive Postgres > selects et al? Not really. 256MB is not exactly a feeble memory configuration and FreeBSD is pretty good about paging from large executables rather than having the whole pile of goop in memory at once - it's more than likely that you simply have no need to swap. Run top and check the vm counters while this stuff runs. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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