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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:09:20 +0200
From:      Adi <adirmj@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10 swapping Idle processes :/
Message-ID:  <53D9EBA0.5030600@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140731011516.21b1261d@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <53D962A7.5090105@gmail.com>	<53D97C71.3050806@freebsd.org> <20140731011516.21b1261d@gumby.homeunix.com>

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Hello

> swapping refers to the management of paging at the process level - in
> some cases it's more efficient to page-out all the memory from some
> idle or less active processes. 

But this is probably new behavior in FreebSD 10 ?
I don't see it before on 9.1 in similar server load.



> I just reproduced this by dd'ing a 16 GB file to tmpfs (with 16GB RAM,
> and 16GB swap). Some processes were marked as swapped before any
> actual paging occurred. \

I forgot write, have small tmpfs too:

tmpfs               2,0M    252K    1,8M    12%
/var/pgsql/data/pg_stat_tmp

Best Regards.






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