From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 3 19:56: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2769237B424; Thu, 3 May 2001 19:56:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA61514; Fri, 4 May 2001 12:55:57 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA15355; Fri, 4 May 2001 12:54:42 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200105040254.MAA15355@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: Doug Hardie Cc: Mike Smith , Marius , Ramon A Hermon , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mem Use In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 03 May 2001 19:24:38 -0700. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 12:54:42 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Exactly. And it also slows down other disk I/O. Why doesn't it swap > it back in and leave it? It keeps bringing it back in every couple > seconds. I don't see any swap out activity, only lots of swapin. Reading files (e.g. with cat or more) and running new programs also counts as pagein. That's one reason why pagein rates are so much higher than pageout. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message