Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 22:07:41 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Worst case swapping. Message-ID: <20000612220741.C8046@freebie.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <39453CC0.C19BB2CD@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 04:40:48AM %2B0900 References: <14660.3153.658226.142964@trooper.velocet.net> <39453CC0.C19BB2CD@newsguy.com>
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On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 04:40:48AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > David Gilbert wrote: > > > > I'm positive that its not a case of the working set being larger than > > physical memory; it's one of choice of page to swap. > > You are positively wrong, then. :-) Active pages are _always_ last > resort with the algorithm FreeBSD uses. > > You mention Netscape is the only active application on another mail... > Well, there is X too, isn't there? > > > Has anyone done any thinking about this behaviour? It occurs with > > varying degree to many applications. > > I have only seen something like this with Netscape. I could probably > trace it to Netscape running Java or Javascript, but I have never tried. Well, another good candidate is acrobat4. Acrobat3 is OK, acrobat 4 seems to dwarf Netscrape in memory footprint. -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl - Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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