From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 27 01:33:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA20379 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:33:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA20374 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:33:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 10673 invoked from network); 27 Jan 1999 09:33:32 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 27 Jan 1999 09:33:32 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id EAA00703; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 04:33:28 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199901270933.EAA00703@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: Memory usage weirdness In-Reply-To: <19990126183430.A61727@thekeep.org> from Dan Root at "Jan 26, 99 06:34:30 pm" To: dar@thekeep.org (Dan Root) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 04:33:28 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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