From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 12 12:58:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3EDD37B52F for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p17-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.18]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id EAA21713; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 04:58:26 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <39453CC0.C19BB2CD@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 04:40:48 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Gilbert Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worst case swapping. References: <14660.3153.658226.142964@trooper.velocet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Gilbert wrote: > > I'm positive that its not a case of the working set being larger than > physical memory; it's one of choice of page to swap. You are positively wrong, then. :-) Active pages are _always_ last resort with the algorithm FreeBSD uses. You mention Netscape is the only active application on another mail... Well, there is X too, isn't there? > Has anyone done any thinking about this behaviour? It occurs with > varying degree to many applications. I have only seen something like this with Netscape. I could probably trace it to Netscape running Java or Javascript, but I have never tried. Alas, in my case this is MUCH worse, as the APA-1460 where Netscape (and a lot of other applications) is consumes freaking amounts of CPU, which results in trashing. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message