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Date:      Thu, 3 May 2001 21:41:33 -0700
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Marius <marius@mail.communityconnect.com>, Ramon A Hermon <rahermon@iastate.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mem Use
Message-ID:  <f0433011eb717e290139d@[10.0.1.100]>
In-Reply-To: <200105040254.MAA15355@lightning.itga.com.au>
References:  <200105040254.MAA15355@lightning.itga.com.au>

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At 12:54 +1000 5/4/01, Gregory Bond wrote:
>  > 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.

That does not appear to be the case in 4.3.  On several systems, a 
cat that will run for about 5 minutes never once shows any swapin 
counts.  Given that my systems are servers for thousands of users, I 
would expect to see the swapins always large.  I only see them on the 
least used server.  Thats why it has 50 MB unused.  It started 
swapping once when named crashed and things backed up for an hour or 
so.  Since then the load has been quite low.  But there are 40 - 80K 
swapped in every 2 seconds.
-- 
-- Doug

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