From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 17 12:50:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA23296 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA23257 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:49:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.v-site.net [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA12278; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:49:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606171949.MAA12278@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: Michael Smith cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Way to flush swap In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jun 1996 21:04:42 +0930." <199606171134.VAA18363@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:49:15 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From The Desk Of Michael Smith : > Khetan Gajjar stands accused of saying: > > > > I have enough ram, and swap space - it's just that the swap isn't > > releasing what it's got in swap after I quit out of the programs. > > The problem (and the reason why nobody is talking to you) is that a) you > don't understand what's really happening, b) you haven't been reading the > relevant lists. > > If you had, you would understand that a) the vm stats are a little out > of kilter at the moment after the massive work that's just gone on, > and b) that the swap that's shown as occupied probably belongs to > other system programs that were pushed out earlier. You know Mike you are really full of shit. The amount of noise that goes thru is way to high and the search engine on our web page is to say the least not as good as it should be. I realized that we sort of have a tongue and cheek attitute on this unix newsgroup;however, can you tone it down a little.. Additionally, if you are not going to anwer the question then why bother posting ... As for little notes on weird behavior , I think that it will be a good idea if it went into a web page. Amancio