From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 24 19:29:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96A616A4CE for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:29:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 523E743D4C for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:29:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so376570uge for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:29:43 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=QTGP3H2Y603uRg8xFwgQ9s8PjfGoCNgew3VlMlQdefjh+pZlkyX1pNPzaHVUdyXZpQ6APPzcOCT1IuVXhbJJJbvcbT4kLlZFfGFZ/2qDWqZa7JkrMsdZaSKFmeLWedgif0+wOFCyIej2VuH647uPUlpv4xPwmHS1bPjZbv/yOR8= Received: by 10.66.249.11 with SMTP id w11mr2714502ugh; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.224.6 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:29:42 +0200 From: "Pietro Cerutti" To: "FreeBSD Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: swap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:29:56 -0000 Hi list, 512 MB of Ram, 1024 MB of swap, 6.1-STABLE After some time my system begins swapping, which is normal. The weird thing is that swapping goes on even after closing the memory consuming programs. here's the output of top(1): Mem: 103M Active, 37M Inact, 107M Wired, 6656K Cache, 60M Buf, 240M Free Swap: 1024M Total, 106M Used, 918M Free, 10% Inuse Why the swapped pages don't get recalled back to main mamory (which has sufficient free space for them), freeing the swap device and thus speeding the system up? Thanx for any explanation, Regards, -- Pietro Cerutti ICQ: 117293691 PGP: 0x9571F78E - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org