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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.

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Wilko Bulte  	 	http://www.freebsd.org  "Do, or do not. There is no try"
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