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Date:      Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:24:01 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
To:        RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 13-CURRENT: several GB swap being used despite plenty of free RAM
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1811191123300.52689@puchar.net>
In-Reply-To: <20181118193016.094cca9d@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> <F5ACF6D0-DBD7-416F-9AAC-7709771FE545@yahoo.com> <201811180154.wAI1smhg049214@slippy.cwsent.com> <CACc-My33oRg7eqjfDuEQU51inyydc66Hx%2B-DysqmdKyyMVVJsA@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1811181752010.24142@puchar.net> <20181118193016.094cca9d@gumby.homeunix.com>

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> The above settings are about process level swapping, i.e. the
> deactivation of whole processes, they don't control swapping in the
> sense of paging out to the swap device.
>
> By default process swapping is only used under extreme memory shortage,
> setting vm.swap_idle_enabled=1 allows idle processes to be deactivated.
> It's only really intended for some special cases like login servers,
> which tend to have a lot of inactive shell and editor processes.
>

and my servers that have LOTS of httpd servers each for one webpage which 
are usually rarely visited.

> Changing those setting wont reduce swap usage, they may increase
> it.
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