Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:02:02 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Illogical usage of swap Message-ID: <20050316140047.S2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050316125446.GA7986@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <20050316123901.U2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> <444qfbpydd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050316125446.GA7986@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
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On Mar 16 at 14:54, Giorgos Keramidas asked: > On 2005-03-16 13:36, "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> wrote: >> On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: >>> "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> writes: >>>> Mem: 479M Active, 2470M Inact, 337M Wired, 101M Cache, 199M Buf, 5468K Free >>>> Swap: 8192M Total, 116K Used, 8192M Free >>> >>> Not a problem. >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM >> >> Hmm, yeah I should have included what I've actually read in the >> handbook and elsewhere. In fact I did read that exerpt you quoted the >> URL for above sometime previously, when it was quoted in another >> thread on the list. >> >> Free memory (or the lack thereof) isn't the issue though. >> >> The issue is this: >> Swap: 8192M Total, 116K Used, 8192M Free >> and that's the piece of the puzzle that has us all utterly baffled. >> >> No way in creation this box should be swapping. > > Do you, by any chance, have vm.swap_idle_enabled set to 1? No, it isn't: gonzo# sysctl -a |grep vm.swap_idle_enabled vm.swap_idle_enabled: 0 Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven Wed Mar 16 14:01:00 CET 2005
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