From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 5 22:58:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA29118 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 22:58:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wcc.wcc.net (wcc.wcc.net [208.6.232.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA29013; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 22:58:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from piquan@wcc.wcc.net) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tnt39.wcc.net [208.10.139.39]) by wcc.wcc.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA16010; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:53:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA02073; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:56:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:56:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804060556.AAA02073@detlev.UUCP> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG CC: dswartz@druber.com, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, dg@root.com, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199804052307.SAA00506@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: swap-leak in 2.2.5 ? From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199804052307.SAA00506@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > The needed amount of physical memory is best judged by paging activity, > but again, the system doesn't tell you directly. Perhaps I'm confused, then... Doesn't vmstat tell you paging activity? Granted, it doesn't tell you whether it's paging to get rid of unused pages, or whether it's paging to free up needed memory, but at least it's a start. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message