Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 04:33:28 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: dar@thekeep.org (Dan Root) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory usage weirdness Message-ID: <199901270933.EAA00703@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <19990126183430.A61727@thekeep.org> from Dan Root at "Jan 26, 99 06:34:30 pm"
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Dan Root said: Content-Description: Mail message > > Is this normal, or should I look for some process that's thrashing through > vast amounts of pages in short periods of time? > It is normal and expected. A little secret about FreeBSD's VM is that it works on a page demand type timeclock and not an arbitrary real time timeclock. This helps the system (partially) to be self-tuning. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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