From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 01:26:42 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA15400 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 01:26:42 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA15394 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 01:26:40 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id BAA06185; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 01:26:33 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id BAA17883; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 01:27:02 -0700 Message-Id: <199506270827.BAA17883@corbin.Root.COM> To: Robert Snow cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swapspace ever increase? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jun 95 00:05:24 CDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 01:27:02 -0700 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >I've been looking at swapinfo and watching more and more get used as my >system stays up and I run programs. Will my free space ever increase? > >I can start with 22% usage and then run several programs (ie. netscape) >and check it and I'm up to 73% usage. The usage never goes down... Can you be more specific about how much space you're talking about? All of the standard system daemons together require about 3MB of swap space. They don't get paged out until they need to be, but once this happens, the space is allocated for them until they are killed. If you're running X, then the requirements are much higher (about 15MB of swap). -DG