From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 26 11:50: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71A3B37B416 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:49:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from winston.freebsd.org (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBQJnWG45144; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:49:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@winston.freebsd.org) To: Andrei Popov Cc: Dan Nelson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap not used *at**all* In-Reply-To: Message from Andrei Popov of "Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:48:58 EST." <20011226124857.A30355@m-net.arbornet.org> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:49:32 -0800 Message-ID: <45140.1009396172@winston.freebsd.org> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ 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