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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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