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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:
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> 
> 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.

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