Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:55:46 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: When does swap decreases Message-ID: <20050620185545.GF8497@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20050620144631.F37558@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20050620141439.S36309@zoraida.natserv.net> <20050620182430.GE8497@dan.emsphone.com> <20050620144631.F37558@zoraida.natserv.net>
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In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: > > When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used > > blocks of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until > > the process owning them exits (even if it pages that memory back > > into RAM), so at some point the system paged out 30MB of memory, > > some processes exited and freed up 20MB, and you probably have some > > long-lived processes that account for that remaining 10MB. > > Makes sense. > Any way to find out which process is using the swap? None that I know of. Another one of those "Junior Kernel Hacker" proejcts :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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